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Should Judge Neil Gorsuch be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, there may well be a paradigm shift in sentencing law, policy and practice, particularly in the area of acquitted, uncharged and unproven conduct at sentencing. His analysis of plain error review in Sabillon-Umana influenced Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Molina-Martinez last April, say criminal defense attorneys Alan Ellis and ...