one keynote speaker was arguing for very narrow rules to replace guidelines that federal judges should use…as current guidelines for sentencing are “too variable” To often,the keynote speaker remarked, outcomes of sentences are not uniform and too many local variations including social economic class, geography, and mitigating circumstances make guidelines unequal among judges.

Of course, there was strong opposition to removing latitude for judges.

Hmmmm…. if guidelines seem to be unequally applied for well trained judges….maybe guidelines for medical doc’s will also be unequally applied.