Criminal
Nov. 4, 2010
Sentencing Guidelines Offer Relief for Low-Level White-Collar Offenders
The most significant changes to federal sentencing guidelines since 1992 are expected to benefit lower profile white-collar crime defendants.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Even as political winds blow sharply against Wall Street, lower profile white-collar criminal defendants may get some leniency under changes to federal sentencing guidelines that took effect this week.
For the first time since 1992, the U.S. Sentencing Commission significantly amended sentencing tables. The changes promote alternatives to incarceration, such as home confinement and split sentences, i...
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