By Caroline Rule
 ABA Section of Litigation
 November 2017 Edition
 
Most federal district court judges are accustomed – even in this age of “advisory” U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines or U.S.S.G.) – to sentencing a criminal defendant by first calculating the applicable “Offense Level,” which provides for a range of months of imprisonment, in the “Sentencing Table” of the Guidelines.
 
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