"In an Aug. 16 opinion drawing attention in legal circles, U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett described "a deeply disturbing, yet often replayed, shocking, dirty little secret of federal sentencing: the stunningly arbitrary application" of sentencing enhancements for repeat offenders....
"He blasted DOJ's "audacity of hypocrisy" for complaining about judge-created sentencing disparities while ignoring its responsibility for this problem.
"DOJ either had the data about application of ... enhancements and not only ignored it, but hid it from the public, or never bothered to gather such data, which was grossly negligent," he wrote. "Either way, allowing this disparity to persist for so long was a terrible abuse of the public trust."
"The lack of a reasonable policy, he wrote, "added thousands of years of arbitrarily inflicted incarceration on drug defendants, most of whom are non-violent drug addicts."...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-judge-drug-sentencing_n_3832476.html
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