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Problematic Ai — When Should We Use It?, Fredric Lederer
Problematic Ai — When Should We Use It?, Fredric Lederer
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Old Age As The Hidden Sentencing Factor, Adam M. Gershowitz
Old Age As The Hidden Sentencing Factor, Adam M. Gershowitz
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Imagine two doctors who illegally sold opioids in exchange for cash. Both doctors sold roughly the same quantity of pills, had no prior criminal convictions, and accordingly faced the same sentencing guidelines range. The major difference was that one doctor was in his sixties and considerably older than the other doctor. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines provide that judges should consider a defendant's age only in atypical cases. Yet, this Article demonstrates that older defendants received sentencing discounts far more often than younger defendants convicted of the same crime.
This Article gathers sentencing data for almost 130 doctors convicted in federal …