Judge Jed Rakoff: Scrap the Guidelines

<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">Following on EDNY Judge John Gleeson's&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/01/30/judge-john-gleeson-not-done-yet.aspx" target="">scathing "expose"</a> of the United States Sentencing Guidelines as to drugs in&nbsp;<a href="http://sentencing.typepad.com/files/us-dossie-opinion.pdf" target="">Dossie</a> and <a href= "http://sentencing.typepad.com/files/united-states-v.-ysidro-diaz.pdf" target="">Diaz</a>, SDNY Judge Jed Rakoff&nbsp;<a href= "http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Securities/News/2013/03_-_March/Rakoff_says_sentencing_guidelines_should_be__scrapped_/" target="">offered his views</a> at&nbsp;the National Institute on White Collar Crime conference sponsored by the American Bar Association&nbsp;in Las Vegas.</font> <blockquote><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">"My modest proposal is that they ...</font></blockquote>