Thoughtful reflection on Skilling sentence

Thanks to Stuart Taylor’s amazing commentary in The National Journal yesterday (discussed here), I discovered that Frank Bowman has this terrific piece in The American Lawyer providing reflections on the federal sentencing of Jeff Skilling and other white-collar offenders.  Frank’s piece is entitled “Sacrificial Felon: Life sentences for marquee white-collar criminals don’t make sense.”  Here is one of many notable insights:

[T]he fate of [Skilling, Bernie Ebbers and John Rigas] leaves me certain of one fact:  The rules governing high-end federal white-collar sentences are now completely untethered from both criminal law theory and simple common sense.