The primary reason for the adoption of sentencing guidelines was to

A. give judges more discretion.
B. control judicial discretion.
C. make sentences more lenient.
D. give prosecutors more discretion.


Answer: B

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. validity b. subjectivity c. objectivity d. originality

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