For Clearwater Criminal Attorneys and their unfortunate clients who find themselves trapped within the legal morass of charged misconduct or federal grand jury investigations within the Federal Middle District of Florida, which includes Tampa, Largo and St. Petersburg Florida, the Sentencing Commission is now publishing case law summaries by circuit. The objective at Federal Sentencing is to use the Federal Guidelines for the best unique sentencing arguments for mitigation of a defendant's sentence. The Federal legal summaries are merely that, just summaries of legal decisions.
Though many of the summaries may be useful in urging a judge to accept leniency at sentencing and to provide the Judge with reasons for a fair Federal Sentence under the Federal Guidelines.
Keep in mind that Commission staff wrote the legal summaries. The summaries are therefore a reflection of how the staff members interpret the federal guidelines promulgated by the sentencing commission. The interpretations can be useful in making arguments to judges on how the federal guidelines should be interpreted during federal sentencing especially in federal drug crimes or federal violent crimes where harsh federal mandatory minimum sentences destroy lives.
But the federal sentencing guidelines themselves are always definitively interpreted by the federal courts such as the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, in Tampa's Middle District of Florida not by the lawyers on the staff of the commission nor by Clearwater Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Keep in mind that Commission staff wrote the legal summaries. The summaries are therefore a reflection of how the staff members interpret the federal guidelines promulgated by the sentencing commission. The interpretations can be useful in making arguments to judges on how the federal guidelines should be interpreted during federal sentencing especially in federal drug crimes or federal violent crimes where harsh federal mandatory minimum sentences destroy lives.
But the federal sentencing guidelines themselves are always definitively interpreted by the federal courts such as the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, in Tampa's Middle District of Florida not by the lawyers on the staff of the commission nor by Clearwater Federal Criminal Lawyers.
