SENTENCING MEMORANDUM
ADELMAN, District Judge.
In United States v. Booker, ___ U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), the Supreme Court held that the federal sentencing guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment. As a remedy, the Court excised the provision of the Sentencing Reform Act that made the guidelines mandatory, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b), and the provision that required the courts of appeals to enforce the guidelines, 18 U.S...
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