Federal Judge’s ‘Top 10′ List Takes On Supreme Court’s Sentencing Decisions

Posted on Tuesday 29 January 2008

One way to get a rise out of usually reticent federal judges is to ask them about sentencing — and particularly the Supreme Court’s role in muddying the waters with a series of difficult-to-follow sentencing decisions since the beginning of this century. Now, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of the District of Nebraska has channeled his own frustration into a David Letterman-style Top 10 list. Kopf says he devised the list “with tongue partly in cheek,” but it still makes for a provocative jaw-dropper.


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