American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Amicus Curiae
Adam B. Wolf, Counsel of Record Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union, with more than 550,000 members, is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality embodied in the Constitution and the Nation’s civil-rights laws. Adam B. Wolf is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Drug Law Reform Project. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 26, 2007. This brief addresses threeinterconnected issues: a sentencing judge’s proper role in…
