Williams , No. 05-4416, 05-6778 Sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine is vacated and remanded where the district judge committed procedural error by relying improperly on the plea policy of a county district attorney, whereas the judge should have resorted to the Sentencing Guidelines as the starting point for determining an appropriate sentence. [read post]

ITERATIVE DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM Basic propositional logic teaches that the disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens) is a valid argument, in which one of its premises is a disjunction (P v Q), and the other premise is the negation of one of the disjuncts: P v Q ~P­­­_____ ∴ Q See Irving Copi & Carl Cohen Introduction to Logic at 362 (2005). [read post]