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In Defense Of Manafort's 47-Month Sentence

By Alan Ellis and Mark Allenbaugh (March 12, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT) -- The 47-month sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on Paul Manafort in Virginia federal court is, to be sure, an anomaly in many respects and has, not surprisingly, received significant criticism. Nonetheless, we argue that despite it being perceived as far too lenient, that is only because most federal sentences are far too punitive. It is, we argue, a reasonable sentence in a forest of the unreasonable and draconian....

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