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0 *News from the U.S. Sentencing Commission July 2001
What's Inside Guidelines Covering 26 Areas
Submitted to Congress
New Guideline Amendments Proposed .. 1, 4-6 Commission Completes Aggressive Agenda; Resolves 19
Message from the Chair .............. 2 Circuit Conflicts in First Full Amendment Cycle
Public Hearing Addresses Native American On May 1, 2001, the Commission completed its first full amendment cycle and
Issues in South Dakota ............3 submitted to Congress a large package of guideline amendments covering 26
areas. These amendments will become effective November 1, 2001, absent
Four Hundred Attend Tenth Annual National congressional action. The package of amendments completes an aggressive
Guidelines Training Program ........6 agenda for the Commission this year that was more than twice as large as the
previous cycle. The amendments include responses to nine new congressional
Practitioners and Probation Officers Advisory directives (five with emergency amendment authority) and, for the first time
Groups Work With Commission .......7 in years, leave no directives awaiting implementation by the Commission.
The Commission also resolved 19 circuit conflicts.
How to Obtain USSC Statistical Information . .9
The amendments generally are designed to promote greater proportionality by
Dr. Brooks is Commission Judicial Fellow. 10 targeting the worst and most culpable offenders, while allowing for sentencing
flexibility for first-time, nonviolent, and less culpable defendants. This
Ex Officios Named; Mr. Kevin Blackwell is approach was evident in a number of amendments related to economic crimes.
NASC Secretary.................... A multi-part, comprehensive economic crimes package includes a new loss
table that significantly increases penalties for high-dollar loss amounts, but
Amendments continued on page 4
The official text of the proposed
amendments sent to Congress is available
on the Commission's website at:
http://www.ussc.-gov/2OO quid/conqress200l.PDF.
A reader-friendly version is also
available. The web address is:
http://www.ussc.-qov/2OOlquidluserfriendly2OOl.pdf.
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