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ROMANO v. LUTHER

No. 754, Docket 86-2375.

816 F.2d 832 (1987)

Carmine ROMANO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dennis LUTHER, Warden, and Benjamin F. Baer, Chairman, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Brand, Washington, D.C. (Sean Connelly, Brand & Lowell, Washington, D.C., Linda S. Sheffield, Atlanta, Ga., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Frank H. Santoro, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn. (Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Peter Goldberger, Alan Ellis, Ellis & Newman, Phil., Pa., submitted an amicus curiae brief for Nat. Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Before NEWMAN, CARDAMONE, and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 ("CCCA" or "Crime Control Act") introduced a number of changes into the administration of federal criminal justice, including a sweeping revision of sentencing law and process. The current system whereby judges exercise broad discretion to impose indeterminate sentences and the United States Parole Commission determines how much of the sentence will be served in prison will be replaced by a...

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