Hanging Up the Robe

Scholarship

PUBLISHER

Federal Sentencing Reporter

DATE

2021

SSRN

Thomas Frampton

A short essay on Judge Jack B. Weinstein, the violence of sentencing, and judicial robes.

SSRN

Thomas Frampton, Hanging Up the Robe, 33 Federal Sentencing Reporter 184-187 (2021).

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