Richard A. Oppel Jr. of the New York Times  just published a article  entitled " Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors". From my perspective handling criminal cases in Tennessee , Mr Oppel is right on target. Under Tennessee criminal sentencing laws , there are mandatory minimum sentences in certain criminal offenses.Some prosecutors use

I attended an advanced sentencing guidelines training course today sponsored by the Federal Public Defender here in Nashville . It was a great program and thanks to the office for hosting the program. Here is a video on firearms sentencing that may be helpful. It was produced by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. I hope the video