In the News Sentencing Ethics: The Perplexing Relevance Of “Acquitted Conduct”
Should that enter into the sentencing calculations, or should they be based on the legal fiction that those other cases, now closed, were truly unsolved? I don’t think that’s as easy a question as the advocates for the Durbin-Grassley bill would have us believe. The Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, Freedom Works, Prison Fellowship, the R Street Institute, Right on Crime, and Koch Industries, among other activist and professional groups from right and left on the political spectrum support it.