Public Comment & Testimony on Emergency Amendments (Jan. 1988) and Proposed Amendments (Mar. 1988)

Most of the testimony and public comment relating to the January 1988 emergency amendments and the March 1988 regular amendment cycle are combined in this single, bookmarked document.

Public Hearing Testimony and Public Comment (Jan.-Mar. 1988) — includes hearing testimony and public comment from the following individuals:

• Arnold I. Burns, Deputy Attorney General, Dept. of Justice
• William F. Weld, Asst. Attorney General, Criminal Division, Dept. of Justice
• Samuel J. Buffone, Chair, American Bar Association, Sentencing Commission Committee
• Tommaso D. Rendino, Federal Probation Officers Association
• Bruce A. Taylor, Citizens for Decency Through Law, Inc.
• Barry J. Portman, Federal Public and Community Defenders
• Allan Ellis, NACDL
• Jeffrey Troutt, Judicial Reform Project, Free Congress Foundation
• Kenneth B. Anderson, U.S. Probation Office, N.D. Florida
• Lee Newton, U.S. Probation Office, N.D. Georgia
• Judge Edward R. Becker, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• William D. Graves, U.S. Probation Office, D. Colorado
• Joe Brown, U.S. Attorney, M.D. Tennessee
• Marcella Cohen, Criminal Div., Dept. of Justice, Organized Crime Racketeering Section
• Oscar J. Stephenson, U.S. Probation Office, N.D. Alabama
• John E. Ackerman, Attorney
• David E. Johnson, U.S. Probatio Office, D. Maryland
• Michael Quinlan, Director, BOP
• William P. Carroll, U.S. Probatio Office, D. New Jersey
• Tom Donelson, The Prison Project

Additional documents:

• Letter from Donald L. Chamlee, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (Apr. 11, 1988) (following up on Judge Becker’s testimony)
• Letter from Judge Edward R. Becker (Apr. 4, 1988)
• William S. Rose, Jr., Asst. Attorney General, Tax Division, Dept. of Justice (Mar. 28, 1988)
• Edwin Meese, III, Chairman Pro Tempore, Domestic Policy Council, Dept. of Justice, Office of the Attorney General (Apr. 5, 1988) (regarding deterring violation of criminal laws by corporate entities)
• Mark A. Cohen, Assistant Professor of Management, Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management (Mar. 16, 1988)