> Going after the United States Sentencing Commission website is beyond stupid. The federal sentencing guidelines were a helpful reform. This is somewhat true.

> Going after the United States Sentencing Commission website is beyond stupid. The federal sentencing guidelines were a helpful reform. This is somewhat true. Sentencing guidelines spell out suggested sentences within, and almost always far under, the maximum sentences allowed by law (although judges are free to ignore them and impose statutory maximum sentences). A more appropriate target for them would have been the place where the maximum sentences are specified, since those are the big problem. The site also happens to belong to the body responsible for setting those maximums: http://uscode.house.gov http://uscode.house.gov (the criminal code is title 18 - http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_18.shtml http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_18.shtml ). This is not a suggestion that anyone undertake any illegal activity - it is just an observation that it would have been a better target. I'm certain that an actual suggestion of that nature would yield significant prison time under these very sentencing laws.