New Guidelines Effective March 1, 2008

Not only is today Law Day, but it's also the date on which some emergency Sentencing Guidelines amendments take effect. They include:

• a temporary emergency amendment to guideline §2B1.1 to increase penalties for disaster and emergency relief fraud
• correction of the "bad math" problem that cropped up when the Commission revised the crack guidelines
• revision of policy statement §1B1.10 to "clarify[] when, and to what extent, a sentencing reduction is considered consistent with the policy statement and therefore authorized under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," and designating the "bad math" corrective amendment as one that may be applied retroactively

Take a gander at official version of these amendments or a reader-friendly redline.