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 that part of the Sentencing Reform Act that made the guidelines mandatory, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b). "So modified, the ... Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 ... makes the Guidelines effectively advisory...
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