Yes, it is.
> it's just what happens if you take the statutory limit on what could be sentenced in the worst possible combination of circumstances, and it assumes that charges don't group or get served concurrently.
Which is, in fact, the theoretical maximum, because while the Sentencing Guidelines call for grouping and concurrent sentences in certain circumstances, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Guidelines are, as the name suggests, more what you'd call “guidelines” than actual rules, and judges are free to depart from them, in either direction, within the mininimum and maximum sentences, if any [0], prescribed for each crime in its own statute.
It’s true that most sentences will conform to the Guidelines, but the Guidelines rules do not set outer boundaries on what is possible.
[0] some crimes have statutory minimums, most have statutory maximums, but some federal crimes specify only imprisonment for “any term of years”.
I look forward to a blog on "The Pirates Code as applied to criminal prosecution in the US." I mean, it is already clear that you can avoid punishment by producing enough pieces of eight, so I wonder what other similarities there are.
Based on what we know so far about Caroline’s misuse (abuse) of funds and possible mass market manipulation all of which has resulted in billions of dollars in investor losses. 10 years in this case seems light, no?
Sunny Balwani, otoh, didn't benefit, wasn't the CEO, didn't make most of the false statements and got a heavier sentence.
These numbers exist solely for the audiences at home.
Depends on which federal drug crimes. The drug kingpin law is based on $, not weight.