Sentencing the Person or the Crime?

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Do personal resources aggravate or mitigate?

Every criminal court judge has to wrestle with the unpleasant reality that all is not equal outside your courtroom and you cannot make it so with any tools you have inside your courtroom.

That leads to some issues common to all of us, and I’m not confident enough in my ability to grapple with those issues to mourn my retirement and…