Within-Case Comparisons Sample Clauses

Within-Case Comparisons. Although the process was anything but transparent, there is no reason to believe that the judges did not do their best to impose sentences that were both fair and consistent. On the contrary, Judge Xxxxxxx’ description of the Xxxxx tribunal’s efforts – which involved a bitter dissent on sentencing issues from Judge Xxxxxxxx – likely applied to all of the tribunals: We three judges spent days carefully reviewing the evidence against all defendants and the extent of their personal guilt. We gave much thought to what would be appropriate sentences to impose upon the 11 defendants who were found guilty. Coming from widely separated areas in America (Judge Xxxx from Connecticut, Judge Xxxxxxxx from Tennessee and I from Washington State), we sought not only to impose a sentence that would fit the guilt of the individual defendant but also bring about uniformity in the sentences which we judges strive to obtain throughout this country.6 This section attempts to explain the tribunals’ sentencing decisions in the eleven trials that involved multiple defendants. (Milch, of course, involved only one.) As we will see, although many of the sentences were consistent, some were either too lenient or too punitive relative to the sentences imposed on similarly-situated co-defendants.