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.
