United States v. William Charles Mooney

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• holding that where a court follows a purely mechanical policy of sentencing defendants to maximum terms with no consideration for individual circumstances, it abdicates its responsibility to exercise its discretion
• since judge's remarks regarding release of defendant sentenced under Sec. 4205(b)(2) cannot bind the Parole Commission, they are without legal effect

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