Notable comments on judging (and sentencing) from a member of my "Sentencing Judges hall of Fame"

Seven years ago, back when my main blog was just getting going, I did this (silly?) post in which I imagined a "Sentencing Judges Hall of Fame" — an institution like the Baseball Hall of Fame which would seek to foster an appreciation of the historical development of sentencing and its impact on our justice system.  As I explained in the post, the "first inductee of the Sentencing Judges Hall of Fame would be easy: Judge Marvin Frankel, whose text Criminal Sentences: Law Without Order helped launch modern sentencing reforms."

I then went on to ask these tough (and silly) follow-up questions: "Should there be separate capital and non-capital wings, state and federal wings, trial and appellate wings?  Would Supreme Court Justices and judges who serve on sentencing commissions have an unfair advantage because of the visibility of their sentencing work?  Would pre-guidelines judges be unfairly disadvantaged for sentencing during the 'dead law' era?"

I note these musing in part to encourage you to think about whether you think any particular Justices and judges ought to get special attention based on their sentencing work.  But I also share these comments to serve as a kind of introduction to my linking hereand presenting below video from one of the sure-fire members of this Sentencing Judges Hall of Fame, Judge Nancy Gertner.

Judge Gernter's professional career is too dynamic to summarize here, and I encourage you to check out all the interview videos on this HLS webpage.  And the video below includes some notable sentencing-specific comments starting just after the 3:00 mark.