...accentuate a seriously urgent problem — the disparity of sentences in Federal criminal cases * * *. Justice is measured in many ways, but to a convicted...lies in the fairness of the sentence he receives. Whether a sentence is fair cannot, of course, be gaged simply by comparing it with punishment imposed...

...accentuate a seriously urgent problem—the disparity of sentences in Federal criminal cases. . . . Justice is measured in many ways, but to a convicted...developed so scrupulous a concern for the protection of a criminal defendant throughout every other stage of the proceedings against him should have so neglected...

...court which felt itself unable to hear the merits of a claim by a defendant of an unjust sentence. "It is an anomaly that a judicial system which has...developed so scrupulous a concern for the protection of a criminal defendant throughout every other stage of the proceedings against him should have so neglected...

...which felt itself unable to hear the merits of a claim by a defendant of an unjust sentence. "It i> an anomaly that a judicial system which has developed so scrupulous a concern for the protection of a criminal defendant throughout every other stage of the proceedings against him should have so neglected...

...many cases could have a devastating Impact on our civil liberties. Justice Potter Stewart once wrote, "Justice Is measured In many ways, but to a convicted...lies in the fairness of the sentence he receives." I would like to remind my colleagues that it Is not only the criminal, but also society at large, that...