Judges in New York's Eastern and Southern districts are among the country's most adventurous when it comes to sentencing defendants outside the ranges set by the "advisory" U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Thirteen months after the U.S. Supreme Court's groundbreaking Booker and Fanfan decisions, statistics show that many New York judges, who had a reputation of being relatively liberal even before those rulings, are happily flexing their new-found discretion.
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