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DAB, Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Steven L. Chanenson, Sam J. Merchant, Matthew Kleiman, Adrian RochaCommentary on why and how sentencing matters, from the editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter
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Steven L. Chanenson is a Professor of Law at Villanova University and one of the Managing Editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter. Previously, he was an AUSA in Chicago and later the Chair of the PA Commission on Sentencing.
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Law
Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing
Policy Director for Last Prisoner Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit working at the interesction of criminal justice and drug reform
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