How have courts interpreted sentencing options in sentencing decisions in the past?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. DiFrancesco, 604 F.2d 769 (2nd Cir. 1979):
6 See United States v. Daugherty, 269 U.S. 360, 363, 46 S.Ct. 156, 70 L.Ed. 309 (1926), adopting the reasoning of Neely v. United States, 2 F.2d 849, 852-3 (2d Cir. 1924), which in turn relied upon the statement in Ex parte DeBara, 179 U.S. 316, 322, 21 S.Ct. 110, 113, 45 L.Ed. 207 (1900) that a court, by exercising such sentencing options, "may express its views of the criminality of a defendant . . . ."
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