A rather radical approach to sentencing guidelines involves mandatory, or determinate sentencing, which requires judges to:

A. implement the three strikes laws.
B. hand down sentences within a prescribed range.
C. defer the sentencing decision to the jury.
D. consider the defendant's personality characteristics.


Ans: B. hand down sentences within a prescribed range.

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