Under the 2005 U.S. Supreme court cases of U.S. V. Booker
and U.S. V. Fanfan, the federal sentencing guidelines can’t be longer
considered as, mandatory. The term mandatory is being defined as a means of
having to be compulsory or that they are required to be done because of the law
or rules implemented in which in the sentence above, it is no longer mandatory,
meaning, it is no longer required to be done.
