European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes Mondry april 25, 1988 judges unhappy with sentencing Law Washington a nol yet is months old guidelines designed in produce uniformity in sent inc ing Federal convicts Are prompting widespread dissatisfaction among the judges who have 1o impose inc Pris on terms. Judges arc complaining about being turned into a a instants and about being barred from using Irir judicial experience discretion and Init Ilion. My general reaction is. Thai they re unwieldy and Lime consuming said . District judge Thomas Kallan Linc jr., of Louisville. By. He suggested the goal of Ike new rules to make the punishment fit the crime will not always be Mcl. I question we Cher a fellow who goes into a Hank Inlet dog to gel  and unmet away with 1500, is any less culpable than inc fellow who got the whole s50.uoo," he said. The National association of criminal lawyers last Miinch endorsed a Challenge 10 the guidelines filed by a woman who must receive a tvs year Send Cnoc in Flor Ida for cocaine smuggling although she has no pre Vious record. There also have been other court challenges to inc guidelines with varying results Aee ording to Nail officials. The guidelines arc cold and implacable and Asim Niu Iahlo As a computer said James id Man a Federal trial judge in los Angeles one of 20 judges who Mcl last webs in Pasadena to discuss their concerns Over the guidelines. Dul other judges who were interviewed said there is enough leeway to Sun the Aims of Justice. We could still go above or Clow the guidelines by filing inc special circumstances of certain cases said judge Howard Munson of Syracuse. , i d like to see now it Worts  judge Thomas a. Wisemanjr. Of Nashville Tenn. Said his colleagues Are virtually unanimous in be Lieving inc guidelines will need a major overhaul. Wiseman vice president of inc Federal judges association said one problem limits placed on use of probation. Wiseman said probation works for the overwhelm ing majority of inmates who receive it As an alternative in iting time. Citing his own judicial District in Tennessee As an example Wiseman said Only 7 percent of those con Vic cd criminals Given probation since 1981 arc accused of committing new crimes or violating i hair pro Bation. The probation system could yield savings nation wide for taxpayers of $2 billion a year Wiseman said Bui he added the system is threatened by the new guidelines. The guidelines adopted under a Federal Law and applying to people convicted of crimes after nov. 1, Are Cape Cid to increase the prison population by 10 percent in the next decade. Federal prisons now hold More than "12,000 in mates a 73 percent jump since 1980, the guidelines increase prison terms for robbery. Fraud. Forgery drug violations and a Host of other crimes. For inc first time Federal judges Are required to impose prison terms for Many White Collar criminals. For example corporate Cie Clives convicted of anti Trust offences such As Price rising must serve prison terms. Only 2b percent of Hose convicted of antitrust crimes were being sent to prison previously. Federal appeals court judge William Wilkins. Who headed inc commission that Drew up the guidelines said a main objective is to convince inc Public the criminal Justice system is fair. There s a feeling in America Thill the while Collar criminal is Able of steal with a Pencil and cd away Wilh it while the i a year old kid v he seals with a gun goes to prison for a Long  he says. There s something unfair and inequitable about that system. We re going to change  but critics contend the new rules try in impose mathematical precision on cases that demand individual attention. There arc 43 different categories for Federal crimes and the length of a prison Lerm is determined by the Type of crime and inc defendant s prior record. Minimum and maximum penalties at each level do not vary More than 25 percent and judges Are barred from deviating unless the Case involves factors not considered by the guidelines commission. These guidelines have turned us almost into accountants said a judge in new Jersey who requested anonymity. "1 want to look a Guy in the Eye and say 1 believe in you i be looked hard at your Csc and i think you can make  " shopper finds charges hard to Swallow Miami ult a shopper who nibbled a few seedless grapes before paying for his Erot cries Wax Lukin from a super Markrel in Handcuffs and jailed on Polly ther charges. Arthur Culberth a plumber picked up a $ i .fi5 hag of while seedless grapes punctured its plastic wrapper and popped a few grapes into his Mouth while shopping sat urday evening at a supermarket in Liberty City police said sunday. Roger Smith an off duty Miami police optic or moonlighting for store Security approached Culic Fly who was Wilh his wife and Stepson and toll him to pay for inc Snipes right away Culberth refused they re taking me for eating grapes a handcuffed Culberth yelled As police whisked him away. Culberth 55, was charged with Petty Shefi and with resisting arrest without violence because he would not go outside with the officer Smith said. He was Given a Chance to pay for the grapes and refused i had no other alter Nate Smith said. C ugh Cath s wife Linda said they had tilled their shopping cart with Aboul 530 world of food and the grapes were going lube pan of the Purchase. They were moving through the produce Section and planned id pay for All the groceries when they reached the Check Gullane she said. How in the world is it Petty theft if we re shopping she said. It s wrong real wrong he works and does t have to go out Here and steal. " Cul Bunh was taken to the dad county jail where Bond was set at s1,000. Take a Gander at this Odd couple Lote has taken Wing for George a can the Field White a Bull Girts the Odd ecu. Decided to Lake up residence Lake a Ida Goose As he follows the object no pie a nary eve. Oracle live on a Greene Chance on in tar Romance and let the his affection Crecie the cow around count Tenn turn Natien George his chips fall where they May. Study finds Sharp Rise in singles living together Madison wis. Up nearly half of All married americans lived with a person of the opposite ses when they were still single according id a National Survey conducted by University of wis Consin Madison researchers sociologists Larry dump ass and James Sweet interviewed 13.hoq randomly selected people nationwide list fall. The conclusions Are considered preliminary and arc based on inc 7,491 cases proc Essed to Dale. The Survey presumed saturday at a National meeting in new Orleans of the population association of America is inc first Ever to concentrate specifically on information Aboul families. Bumpass and Sweet said the increase in the last two decades in the number of scope who live together without being married amounts loan  eleven percent of americans married Between 1965 and 197.4 lived with some one of the opposite sex before their first marriage Ilie researchers said. For phase married Between 1980 and 1984. The Fig ure jumped Lei j4 percent. The researchers also found that living together is even More frequent Between marriages 58 percent of recently Remar ried people said they had cohabited. Cohabitation has not simply become increasingly  the researchers said. If acc Cal trends continue it will soon be the majority  Bumpass and Sweet also found that married people who had cohabited either with each other or Wilh someone cite were much More Likely to divorce than people who never had cohabited. Using information on firm Mam since 1975, the researchers found Hal 10 years after marriage. 53 percent of those who had cohabited before marriage had divorced compared Wilh 2 Percini of those who had never cohabited and bad divorced but they slopped Short of saying cohabitation causes divorce. We think thai people who cohabit have less traditional  in general Aboul marriage Bumpass said the same altitudes that male a person decide to live with someone also May make the person More Likely in find divorce an acceptable Way to end an  marriage