Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Ellison

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• While the courts determine sentence appropriateness, “[t]he responsibility for clemency, however, was placed by Congress in other hands.”
• Article 66 assigns the courts of criminal appeals “the task of determining sentence appropriateness” the “responsibil- ity for clemency, however, was placed by Congress in other hands.”
• sentence appropriateness is a judicial function; clemency is an act of mercy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).