Regarding federal sentencing guidelines, in late 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court went further and
a. found that district court judges do have to justify their deviations from the federal sentencing guidelines.
b. do not have broad discretion to disagree with the guidelines and to impose what they believe are reasonable sentences.
c. decided two cases that together restored federal judges to their traditional central role in criminal sentencing, even if the guidelines call for different sentences.
d. None of the above
c
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