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Considerato un vero e proprio "cantastorie" e una voce sincera della sua terra, Bertoli fu una figura emblematica della canzone d'autore italiana dagli anni settanta ai primi anni 2000, spaziando dalla musica popolare al rock, con testi diretti e densi di riferimenti sociali e politici.
Di lui è stato scritto che «l'immediatezza dei messaggi e la sincerità dell'ispirazione sono la peculiarità delle sue composizioni; la denuncia sociale, ora più meditata ora più aggressiva, connota il suo modo di raccontare l'uomo e il tempo in cui vive. Non ci sono coinvolgimenti nel consumismo del mercato, semmai una rabbia autentica certo non più attuale nel dilagante qualunquismo, frutto anche della maggiore sensibilità che egli ha come portatore di handicap» (venne colpito dalla poliomielite durante l'infanzia).

Pierangelo Bertoli è stato paragonato ai celebri compositori di ballate politiche popolari del passato, erede di una tradizione a cui appartenne, per esempio, l'anarchico Pietro Gori.

Biografia

Giovinezza ed esordi (1942 - 1976)
Nato a Sassuolo, in provincia di Modena, da una famiglia operaia, a dieci mesi fu colpito da una grave forma di poliomielite che lo privò della funzionalità degli arti inferiori e lo costrinse a vivere muovendosi su una sedia a rotelle.

Malgrado l'ingombrante presenza della carrozzella, visse un'infanzia regolare, ma priva di ogni genere di bene superfluo; secondo quanto raccontato dallo stesso Bertoli, in casa non c'era neppure la radio e per questo motivo la passione musicale del giovanissimo Pierangelo venne essenzialmente dall'esterno, anche se non va dimenticato il ruolo decisivo ricoperto dal fratello e dal gruppo musicale di quest'ultimo, che all'inizio degli anni sessanta si riuniva proprio nella cantina di casa Bertoli per suonare insieme.

Bertoli conosceva già la discografia di alcuni cantanti famosi, come per esempio Frank Sinatra, ma non possedeva alcuna nozione di strumenti musicali e tecniche interpretative. Compiuti venticinque anni, alcuni amici gli prestarono una vecchia chitarra e in pochi mesi Bertoli imparò a suonarla, tanto che di lì a poco la chitarra divenne il suo strumento di riferimento. Dopo un anno di esercizi da autodidatta, cominciò a comporre le prime musiche per le canzoni già scritte nella parte testuale, che suonò dapprima di fronte agli amici e poi davanti a platee sempre più vaste, soprattutto in occasione di feste di paese e di partito.

Il legame con la sua terra d'origine, oltre a non allontanarlo dalla sua città natale, gli fece comporre numerose canzoni in dialetto sassolese.

Nei primi anni 1970, Bertoli entrò nel raggruppamento maoista Unione Comunisti Italiani (marxisti-leninisti), che in seguito diventò Partito Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Italiano, e con altri musicisti militanti del partito (Bartolo Bruno alla fisarmonica e alle tastiere, Leonello Zaquini alla chitarra, Alberto Bocchino al basso e Claudia Montis alla voce) formò il Canzoniere Nazionale del Vento Rosso, pubblicando con la casa editrice del partito, Servire il popolo, i primi 45 giri tra il 1973 e l'anno successivo: Marcia d'amore/Per dirti t'amo, Scoperta/Marcia d'amore e Matrimonio/L'autobus.
Nel 1974 pubblicò il primo album studio, Rosso colore dell'amore (poi ristampato postumo in CD dalla American Records nel 2006), contenente in tutto dodici brani, comprese tre delle canzoni uscite poco tempo prima in formato singolo: Per dirti t'amo, L'autobus e Marcia d'amore.

L'album venne stampato anche in Germania Ovest, a cura del Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, e ciò comportò una tournée di Bertoli che toccò, tra le altre, Monaco di Baviera, Francoforte, Colonia, Düsseldorf e Zurigo. Il tour continuò poi in Italia, in una forma di teatro canzone che alternava i brani musicali con i monologhi di Bertoli.

Han gridato scioperiamo è un altro album pubblicato in quel periodo, sempre a nome del Canzoniere Nazionale del Vento Rosso (con una formazione cambiata, con Silvana Zigrino e Ciccio Giuffrida al posto di Bartolo Bruno), in cui Bertoli suona e partecipa ai cori senza essere accreditato; inoltre è autore di tre canzoni, tra cui una prima versione di Eppure soffia con un testo diverso e intitolata Mario Lupo  (anche se sulla copertina del disco come autore del brano è segnalato, stranamente, il solo Giuffrida).

Scioltosi il partito e, di conseguenza, anche il Canzoniere del Vento Rosso, nel 1975 Bertoli radunò alcuni amici musicisti come Marco Dieci, Francesco Coccapani e Gigi Cervi e realizzò un nuovo disco, Roca Blues prodotto dal presidente della squadra di calcio della Sassolese, Carlo Alberto Giovanardi.

Il contratto discografico con la CGD (1976 - 1980)
Un amico musicista di Bertoli, Alete Corbelli, chitarra solista negli anni sessanta di Caterina Caselli, fece ascoltare l'album Roca Blues alla cantante, moglie di Piero Sugar, che convinse il marito a proporre un contratto con la CGD a Bertoli: e proprio quest'etichetta pubblicò nel 1976 l'album Eppure soffia, che iniziò a far conoscere il cantautore presso un pubblico più vasto, grazie alla title track, inno all'ecologismo.

Come raccontò il cantautore, le registrazioni iniziarono il 4 ottobre 1976, e il 5 novembre, giorno del suo compleanno, Bertoli si recò a rinnovare la carta d'identità, che venne inserita sulla copertina del disco. In questo terzo album venne accreditato come P. Angelo Bertoli, nome che appare sul documento.

L'anno successivo la Caselli decise di aprire una casa discografica propria, distribuita dalla CGD, per dedicarsi all'attività di talent-scout: nacque così la Ascolto, che pubblicò il nuovo album di Bertoli, Il centro del fiume, che contiene una versione ridotta di Rosso colore, già incisa nel primo disco; nella busta interna del disco venne inserita inoltre una presentazione di Bertoli scritta da Giancarlo Governi.

Nel 1978 realizzò un album che racchiudeva esclusivamente canzoni in dialetto modenese: S'at ven in meint (Cosa ti viene in mente) ospita anche la voce di Caterina Caselli nel brano L'Erminia temp adree. Una versione diversa di tale brano si trova nel CD di canzoni sassolesi I giaraun d'la luna (I sassi della luna), sempre con le voci di Bertoli e della Caselli. In questo CD (R&S&C2), distribuito nel 1995 solo in Emilia, Bertoli canta da solo o in duetto con Nek, Marco Dieci e altri anche in Chi ha pruvee una volta, C'sa vot ch'am inveinta, Turner indree; mentre è l'autore di altre canzoni quali Annalisa la valisa, Fa finta ed gnint, Vladimiro, Da la me fnestra, Te stà lè, Peinsa te e Al mester d'l'orchestra.
Altri brani dialettali saranno inclusi negli album Certi momenti e Sedia elettrica.

Il 1979 è l'anno di A muso duro, uno dei suoi album più noti e il primo a conoscere un riscontro su vasta scala, contenente la canzone omonima, vero e proprio manifesto di uomo e artista, che esalta anche la funzione sociale e aggregativa del mestiere del cantante.

In questo periodo conobbe Bruna Pattacini, che diventò sua moglie e da cui ha avuto tre figli: Emiliano, a cui è dedicata la canzone Dietro me, Petra (alla quale intitolò l'album omonimo) e Alberto Bertoli; quest'ultimo ha seguito le orme del padre, facendo il cantante di professione, oltre a prendere parte ai concerti-tributo a lui dedicati.

Per un certo periodo simpatizzò per la sinistra extraparlamentare, andando spesso ospite di Radio Tupac, una radio libera di Reggio Emilia, chiusa dalla polizia (che ne distrusse le apparecchiature e la sede, come accaduto anche a Radio Alice) dopo due anni per "apologia di reato", in quanto i conduttori, denunciati, facevano trasmissioni contro le gravi condizioni in cui vivevano nelle carceri italiane i detenuti politici, a cui manifestavano solidarietà. Tra le conoscenze personali del cantautore nei primissimi anni '70, vi erano anche importanti persone dell'ambiente extraparlamentare, come il futuro brigatista Alberto Franceschini, prima che quest'ultimo entrasse a far parte della lotta armata. Questa amicizia riprenderà in seguito. Quando Franceschini venne scarcerato in licenza premio nel 1987, Bertoli fu una delle prime persone che lo andarono a trovare.

Certi momenti e i lavori successivi (1980 - 1991)
Tale successo venne consolidato con Certi momenti del 1980, la cui title track affronta con coraggio la tematica dell'aborto schierandosi contro la Chiesa cattolica: quest'album contiene inoltre la canzone Pescatore, cantata con una ancora semisconosciuta Fiorella Mannoia; racconta di una donna che, soffrendo la lontananza del marito, lo tradisce salvo poi pentirsene, e il duetto si snoda tra il racconto del tormento interiore di lei e della fatica di lui nel combattere contro il mare sperando in una pesca fruttuosa.

I tre album successivi, da Album del 1981 a Dalla finestra del 1984, confermarono la popolarità di un Bertoli non più considerato come fenomeno di folklore.

Nel 1984 esce Dalla finestra, contenente Varsavia, un duro atto d'accusa contro il totalitarismo del blocco dei paesi dell'est Europa e la repressione del generale Jaruzelski in Polonia (1981-1983), e che

È di quegli anni anche l'album Canzone d'autore (1987), in cui Bertoli reinterpretò alcuni classici, alternandoli a composizioni inedite di altri autori misconosciuti: in questo album spiccano le sue versioni di Bartali di Paolo Conte, Vedrai vedrai di Luigi Tenco, Un giudice di Fabrizio De André e Sfiorisci bel fiore di Enzo Jannacci.

La sua attività discografica non conobbe interruzioni nonostante un sensibile calo nelle vendite, ritrovando un ritorno di fiamma nel 1990 in occasione di Oracoli, primo album con etichetta Dischi Ricordi, scritto a quattro mani con il cantautore Luca Bonaffini, che farà da apripista al suo esordio sanremese. Nel frattempo vinse nel 1989 un telegatto per uno spot televisivo a favore della "Lega per l'emancipazione dell'handicappato", al quale prese parte nel ruolo di un avventore che non poteva chiamare la Polizia per segnalare un incidente, in quanto trovava delle cabine telefoniche che non erano in grado di far passare la sua sedia a rotelle.

Nel 1990 fece un cameo in una canzone di Elio e le Storie Tese Giocatore mondiale, sigla del programma Mai dire Mondiali: la canzone tratta con ironia la questione delle barriere architettoniche, e Bertoli canta i versi "La vita è bella, perché le cabine son strette ma largo è lo stadio, solo alla morte non c'è rimedio". Le cabine (telefoniche) da lui menzionate rimandano proprio allo spot da lui interpretato. Più impegnato invece fu il suo contributo dato ai Giochi F.I.S.H.A. che in quello stesso anno videro la sua firma nell'inno ufficiale Canto di vittoria, incisa anche in inglese.

Le partecipazioni a Sanremo (1991 - 1992)

Nel 1991 partecipò al Festival di Sanremo insieme ai Tazenda con Spunta la luna dal monte, una canzone scritta in origine dal gruppo sardo intitolata Disamparados, di cui Bertoli scrisse il testo in italiano: il brano ottenne molto successo, portando a Bertoli una seconda giovinezza artistica.

L'anno dopo tornò a Sanremo con Italia d'oro, denuncia dei malcostumi nazionali, la quale anticipò lo scandalo di Tangentopoli che di lì a poco avrebbe interessato l'opinione pubblica: la sua seconda partecipazione gli valse il quarto posto.

Nello stesso album è presente anche la canzone Giulio, un'accusa diretta e senza mezzi termini nei confronti di Giulio Andreotti.

L'impegno politico e sociale (1992 - 1993)
Vicino fin dalla giovinezza alla sinistra, nel 1992, dopo aver rifiutato immediatamente una candidatura offertagli da un senatore del PSI craxiano, fu candidato alle elezioni politiche per Rifondazione Comunista. Per alcuni anni ebbe anche la tessera del Partito Radicale di Marco Pannella.
Impegnato socialmente in iniziative benefiche e di solidarietà, Bertoli si batté in favore dell'abbattimento delle barriere architettoniche e partecipò a incontri e raduni per sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica sull'integrazione sociale dei disabili, tra cui una proposta per una Legge Quadro in materia.

Ultimo periodo (1993 - 2002)
Nel 1993 pubblicò l'album Gli anni miei e produsse, insieme a Caterina Caselli, l'album "Blez" di Luca Bonaffini. Due anni dopo uscì la prima raccolta di brani reincisi intitolata Una voce tra due fuochi. I suoi ultimi lavori ebbero non poche difficoltà a essere distribuiti né si avvalsero di un soddisfacente battage promozionale.
Nel 1995, difatti, aveva rotto con la BMG Ricordi che, dopo la pubblicazione della citata raccolta, lo lasciò senza contratto.

Nel 1997, in occasione del centenario della Juventus (squadra per cui Bertoli tifava) scrisse una canzone intitolata Juvecentus.
Partecipò poi ad alcune incisioni indipendenti e a raccolte di beneficenza con altri artisti di Sassuolo, come la Caselli.

Nel 2001 si esibì in pubblico in un concerto al carcere di Modena. Incise tre singoli con il gruppo sardo degli Istentales; presentò una nuova canzone in italiano e sardo, come fece già con i Tazenda, per il Festival di Sanremo del 2002 (Viene per noi, un testo pacifista riferito alla guerra in Afghanistan), ma il direttore artistico Pippo Baudo la bocciò.

L'ultimo album, 301 guerre fa, composto da inediti e vecchie canzoni riarrangiate e ricantate, uscì poco prima della sua scomparsa, mentre altre dieci canzoni (che avrebbero dovuto costituire il nuovo album del 2003), scritte con la collaborazione del figlio Alberto (ma anche di Ligabue), non verranno mai incise da Bertoli né pubblicate.

In primavera apparve in televisione, in diretta dalla sua casa, alla trasmissione La domenica del villaggio. Uno dei suoi ultimi concerti fu a Potenza in piazza Prefettura il 1º maggio 2002.

Sofferente di tumore ai polmoni, all'inizio del settembre 2002 Bertoli fu sottoposto a una serie di cure presso il Policlinico di Modena, dove ritornò qualche giorno dopo, per morirvi la mattina del 7 ottobre, all'età di 59 anni. Dopo la camera ardente e le visite di numerose persone venute a rendergli omaggio, tra cui Luciano Ligabue, per volere dei familiari non ci fu nessuna cerimonia funebre. La salma venne cremata e le ceneri tumulate nella tomba di famiglia presso il cimitero nuovo di Sassuolo.

Dopo la morte: incisioni, uscite postume e omaggi
Nel 2003 esce Madre Terra, con la giovane Erica Tozzi.

Nel 2005 esce il CD tributo ...a Pierangelo Bertoli dove le sue canzoni sono ricantate da altri artisti come i Nomadi, gli Stadio, Nek, Bruno Lauzi e Fiorello. Tra le canzoni anche un brano (Le cose cambiano) scritto da Ligabue e interpretato da Alberto Bertoli, figlio di Pierangelo.

Il 28 aprile 2006, a cura di Alberto Bertoli, è uscita la raccolta Parole di rabbia, pensieri d'amore con un inedito, Adesso (registrato nel 1990), la cui uscita è dedicata dal figlio alla vittoria della sinistra alle elezioni politiche del 2006, evento auspicato da Bertoli, che mai aveva fatto mistero delle sue idee.

Il 27 settembre 2008 a Sassuolo si è tenuto il primo raduno ufficiale dei fan del cantautore. L'evento è iniziato con l'inaugurazione di un bassorilievo dal titolo "A muso duro", è proseguito con un dibattito sulla vita di Bertoli dal titolo "Parole di rabbia e pensieri d'amore" e con l'inaugurazione di una mostra fotografica e oggettistica dal titolo "E così nasce una canzone".
In serata si è tenuto un grande concerto tributo a cui hanno partecipato tra gli altri Fabio Concato e i Modena City Ramblers.

A luglio 2010 la canzone A muso duro viene premiata con il premio Lunezia per il testo.

Il 22 settembre 2012, in occasione del concerto di beneficenza Italia Loves Emilia, in favore delle vittime del terremoto dell'Emilia del 2012, A muso duro è cantata alla fine del concerto da tutti gli artisti presenti: Biagio Antonacci, Claudio Baglioni, Ligabue, i Negramaro, i Litfiba, Fiorella Mannoia, i Nomadi, Giorgia, Elisa, Jovanotti, Zucchero, Renato Zero e Tiziano Ferro.

Il 29 settembre 2012 in occasione del decennale della sua scomparsa viene organizzato dal comune di Modena un concerto tributo intitolato "Canterò le mie canzoni per la strada" al quale partecipano tra gli altri Enrico Ruggeri, Luca Carboni, i Dik Dik, Luca Bonaffini, Caterina Caselli, Danilo Sacco, Marco Masini, i Tazenda e Gerardina Trovato.

Il cantautore Luca Bonaffini, nel giugno 2013, ha pubblicato il romanzo autobiografico La notte in cui spuntò la luna dal monte dedicato a Pierangelo Bertoli, in cui racconta come nacque la canzone che portò l'artista emiliano al Festival di Sanremo e ha realizzato un album, intitolato Sette volte Bertoli. Ricordando Pierangelo.

Il Comune di Milano nell'aprile 2016 intitola al cantautore un'area verde cittadina tra le vie Benedetto Croce, Popper, Quarenghi e Kant.

Nel 2013 nasce in sua memoria il Premio Pierangelo Bertoli.

Collaborazioni artistiche
Tra i sodalizi artistici, si ricordano quello con una ancora sconosciuta Fiorella Mannoia in Pescatore, uno dei brani di maggior successo di Bertoli; Ornella Vanoni, per cui scrisse Favola (che cantò insieme alla cantante nell'album Duemilatrecentouno parole), i Tazenda, con i quali cantò Spunta la luna dal monte, altro suo cavallo di battaglia; Fabio Concato, con cui duettò sia in Chiama piano sia in Acqua limpida, alle quali partecipò anche Grazia Di Michele; e Ligabue, una vera e propria scoperta dello stesso Bertoli che lo lanciò a livello regionale, producendo il suo primo disco alla fine degli anni ottanta, e con il quale strinse un intenso e forte legame di amicizia e stima, fino a proporlo al produttore Angelo Carrara per il suo album d'esordio.

Di lui incise due sue canzoni: nel 1988 Sogni di rock'n'roll e l'anno seguente Figlio d'un cane, entrambe poi confluite nel primo lavoro discografico dell'artista di Correggio datato 1990.

Ha anche preso parte, interpretando se stesso, al film di Marco Ferreri Il futuro è donna del 1984.

Temi e poetica
Lo stile di Bertoli si contraddistingue per la sua immediatezza, nonché per i mai banali echi poetici che fanno della sua opera un esempio limpido della bontà della prima canzone d'autore italiana che ha ospitato artisti come Fabrizio De André, Francesco Guccini, Paolo Conte, Giorgio Gaber, Francesco De Gregori. Molte volte nelle canzoni canta contro la guerra o a favore dei più deboli.
Nonostante gli spunti politici di molti testi, l'impegno di Bertoli si svolse principalmente sul piano civile e sociale. Bertoli ha inoltre cantato molte canzoni in dialetto sassolese, prima raccogliendole in un Lp (S'at vein in meint) e poi in altri album. Eppure, proprio in canzoni come Prega Crest (Prega nostro Signore), La bala (dove "bala" significa, con doppio senso, sia "bugia" sia "ubriacatura"), è possibile cogliere in Bertoli una voce genuina della sua terra, "dura e pura".

Religione
Pierangelo Bertoli era ateo. In molte canzoni, come Certi momenti (1980), Bianchezza (1981) e Varsavia (1984) - tutte e tre contenenti allusioni a papa Giovanni Paolo II - si esprime inoltre in maniera molto critica verso la Chiesa cattolica e i suoi vertici, opinioni ribadite anche in un'intervista, in cui condanna il sostegno di alcuni cattolici alla pena di morte (a cui egli era contrario in maniera assoluta), in casi estremi e particolari:
Altre canzoni con riferimenti anticlericali e antireligiosi sono Così, Giulio, 1967 e Oracoli. Ancora affermò il fastidio per il "pietismo" cattolico verso i disabili come lui e disse anche che «il dio denaro sembra comunque l'unico per cui la gente è disposta a sacrificarsi. Credo che di tutto Marx almeno una frase, che cito a memoria, vada salvata: "Fino ad oggi ho creduto che fossero le leggi a determinare le religioni, l'economia. È invece il contrario"».

Bertoli venne anche citato e criticato indirettamente - assieme ad altri musicisti - dall'Osservatore Romano, il quotidiano della Città del Vaticano (dopo che una sua canzone fu inserita in un'antologia di canti dall'Azione Cattolica) per essersi definito "ateo e anticattolico", anche se in alcune canzoni tocca anche dei temi religiosi, in cui sottolinea però sempre l'ipocrisia del clero (È nato si dice).

Discografia

Album in studio
1974 - Rosso colore dell'amore (Lega del Vento Rosso, VR 9, ristampato nel 2006 per la American Records AMR 111)
1975 - Roca Blues (Made in Sassuolo, LP 0101, ristampato su CD nel 2001)
1976 - Eppure soffia (CGD, 81800, su CD 9031 70144-2)
1977 - Il centro del fiume (Ascolto, ASC 20030, su CD 9031 70145-2)
1978 - S'at ven in meint (Ascolto, ASC 20068, su CD 4509-91969-2)
1979 - A muso duro (Ascolto, ASC 20128, su CD 9031 70140-2)
1980 - Certi momenti (Ascolto, ASC 20233, su CD 9031 71296-2)
1981 - Album (Ascolto, ASC 20271, su CD 9031 71297-2)
1983 - Frammenti (CGD, 20349 su CD 9031 77304-2)
1984 - Dalla finestra (CGD, 20404, su CD 9031 77305-2)
1985 - Petra (CGD, 20461)
1987 - Canzone d'autore (CGD, 20626, su CD CDS 6063)
1988 - Tra me e me (CGD, 20727, su CD CDS 6084)
1989 - Sedia elettrica (CGD, 2092, su CD CDS 6132)
1990 - Oracoli (Dischi Ricordi, SMRL 6426)
1992 - Italia d'oro (Dischi Ricordi, STVL 6446)
1993 - Gli anni miei (Dischi Ricordi, STVL 6466)
1997 - Angoli di vita (Crisler, FCD 2127)
2002 - 301 guerre fa (Crisler, CCD 3037)

Antologie
1979 - Pierangelo Bertoli (Record Bazaar, RB 215)
1986 - Bertoli & Bertoli - Studio ...Live (CGD, CI 20214, su cd 9031 70148-2) (contiene un disco raccolta, tra cui una versione inedita di Favola, e un disco di incisioni dal vivo)
1989 - Il vento soffia ancora (CGD MusicA, LSM 1351) (antologia del periodo Ascolto)
1991 - Spunta la Luna dal monte e i grandi successi (Fonit Cetra, TLPX 278)
1995 - Una voce tra due fuochi (BMG/Ricordi, TCDMRL 305672)
1997 - Frammenti di... Pierangelo Bertoli (nel 2000 rinominato Tracce di Pierangelo Bertoli)
2000 - Pierangelo Bertoli
2000 - Le più belle canzoni
2006 - Le più belle canzoni di Pierangelo Bertoli
2006 - Parole di rabbia, pensieri d'amore
2007 - Pierangelo Bertoli - Antologia
2008 - Pierangelo Bertoli - I grandi successi
2010 - Pierangelo Bertoli - Original album series
2011 - Le canzoni, i miei pensieri
2012 - Un'ora con... Pierangelo Bertoli
2012 - A muso duro - Le più belle di sempre
2013 - A muso duro
2013 - Pierangelo Bertoli - Generazione cantautori
2016 - Pierangelo Bertoli - Playlist
2022 -Cristalli di memoria

Singoli
1973 - Marcia d'amore/Per dirti t'amo {Servire il popolo VR 3}
1974 - Scoperta/Marcia d'amore {Edizioni del Vento Rosso VR 5}
1974 - L'autobus/Matrimonio {Edizioni del Vento Rosso VR 6}
1977 - Eppure soffia/È nato si dice {Ascolto ASC 10025}
1979 - Verso Europa/Ridere di un'ora (Canzone per Carlotta) {Ascolto ASC 10166}
1979 - A muso duro/Per dirti t'amo {Ascolto ASC 10221}
1990 - Canto di Vittoria/Song of Victory (Canzone Ufficiale Giochi F.I.S.H.A.) {Dischi Ricordi SRL 11107}
1991 - Spunta la Luna dal monte/Sabato {Dischi Ricordi SRL 11116; lato a con i Tazenda}
1992 - Italia d'oro/Se potesse bastare {Dischi Ricordi SRL 11123}
2002 - Promissas
2003 - Madre Terra (con Erika Tozzi)

Duetti
 Con Caterina Caselli: L'Erminia teimp adree (in S'at ven in meint di Pierangelo Bertoli, 1978)
 Con Fabio Concato: Chiama piano (in Oracoli di Pierangelo Bertoli, 1990)
 Con Fabio Concato e Grazia Di Michele: Acqua limpida (in Oracoli di Pierangelo Bertoli, 1990)
 Con Fiorella Mannoia: Pescatore
 Con Ornella Vanoni: Favola
 Con Elio e le Storie Tese: Giocatore mondiale
 Con Ligabue: Sogni di Rock & Roll (Ligabue compare nei backvocal)
 Con i Tazenda: Spunta la luna dal monte
 Con Blez: La quinta stagione
 Con Danilo Amerio: 301 Guerre fa
 Con Fiordaliso: Pescatore in 301 Guerre fa
 Con Erika Tozzi: Madre Terra

Contributi
1989 - Per te Armenia/Sono caduti {New Enigma Records NEM 47002}-(ASSOCIATION AZNAVOUR POUR L'ARMENIE)

Tributi
2003 - A muso duro - Fiorello (nell'album A modo mio)
2005 - ...a Pierangelo Bertoli - Artisti vari
2006 - Eppure soffia - Canzoni per parrucchiere live tour - Stadio
2006 - Pescatore - Nomadi feat Giulia
2007 - Eppure soffia - Ligabue (inciso sul web per il Live Earth)
2009 - Eppure soffia - Luca Carboni (cover presente nell'album Musiche ribelli)
2010 - A muso duro - Alberto Bertoli (cover nel disco Il tempo degli eroi)
2011 - A muso duro - Raffaele Tedesco (omaggio nell'album Ho un nome live)
2012 - A muso duro - Finale di concerto Italia loves Emilia (concerto per la raccolta fondi ai terremotati emiliani)
2017 - A muso duro - Davide Buzzi (nell'album Non ascoltare in caso d'incendio)

Riconoscimenti

 1989 - TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Telegatto per il miglior spot;
 2010 - Premio Lunezia, omaggio a Pierangelo Bertoli e per il valore musical-letterario del brano A muso duro (ritirato dal figlio Alberto Bertoli)

Note

Bibliografia
 Mario Bonanno, Rosso è il colore dell'amore. Intorno alle canzoni di Pierangelo Bertoli, con DVD, Viterbo, Stampa Alternativa/Nuovi equilibri, 2012. ISBN 978-88-6222-283-9.
 Domenico Mangiardi, Pierangelo Bertoli. I certi momenti, Foggia, Bastogi, 2001. ISBN 88-8185-404-X.
 Michele L. Straniero (a cura di), Pierangelo Bertoli, Roma, Lato Side, 1981.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Gruppi e musicisti dell'Emilia-Romagna
Gruppi e musicisti della CGD
Gruppi e musicisti della Ascolto
Gruppi e musicisti della Dischi Ricordi
Autori partecipanti al Festival di Sanremo
Attivisti italiani
Personalità dell'ateismo nelle arti
Politici del Partito Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Italiano
Politici del Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
Musicisti e Turnisti dei Tazenda


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Do you know about Weelicious? I wrote about this terrific blog and the very lovely mom behind it all, Catherine McCord, several months back after meeting her at a conference. I liked her immediately, and love what she does for parents…arming them with recipes and inspiration in the kitchen.
Well, Catherine's first cookbook is out, a resource chock full of recipes and advice that aims to help parents stop being short-order cooks, to shop effectively (and make it fun), to inspire kids to eat healthfully without resorting to sneaking or trickery, and to get kids in the kitchen from day one.
From what I can tell, the Weelicious book is selling like hotcakes. Lucky for us, she's passed along two copies for me to give away to two of you. All you need to do to enter is write a comment below sharing where you get your ideas and inspiration for family meals. If you aren't a subscriber already, becoming one now will automatically enter you in the contest a second time. Look for the subscription box on the right hand column of my home page.
Don't be shy! Give it a shot.
Contest rules: Contest ends midnight PST Wednesday October 10. Must be 18 years or older to enter and live in the United States or Canada. You cannot be my mother, my brother, or anyone else related to me. Good luck!
I like to read old cookbooks from the 50's. There always seem to be sections about packing balanced lunches and feeding a family.
I used to be a big rut when it came to cooking for my family. I've always cooked pretty healthy, but with three kids five and under, it was hard to figure out how to cook so everyone would find something they enjoyed eating (without having pasta 24/7!). I started using recipes from food blogs, and that has given me so much inspiration and a lot of creative ideas! Katie, your blog is fantastic and definitely my favorite for healthy, family recipes! I've passed it along to my friends! I also found several other food blogs I use occasionally. It's nice to know there are other moms out there who want to feed their families healthy food, but also want everyone to enjoy eating it!
I generally get my meal ideas from the web. I subscribe to a few sites for kid-friendly, healthy ideas in my inbox each week–including Weelicious and Mom's Kitchen Handbook!
I always look in the pantry and fridge and then go to my cookbooks or online. Chopped has helped me come up with meals based on what I have instead of having to go to the store with a newborn and 2 1/2 year old.
YOU!! Love Mom's Kitchen Handbook!! Also just recently came across a food blog that I've enjoyed exploring, The Realistic Nutritionist.
My inspiration for meals comes from all these great blogs that I am subscribed to.
I hope there are some breakfast ideas in here!
I like recipes.com and of course, your blog! Recipes.com sends me a recipe everyday. If I don't have anything planned I have a quick option!
Blogs, pinterest and a collection of cook books inspire me.
I get ideas from your website, recipes that friends have passed on to me, various cookbooks that I have (Petit Appetite, Giada de Laurentis, Rachel Ray, etc.).
Every Sunday morning I take 30 minutes and plan out our meals for the week. My go to resource is Mom's Kitchen Handbook which I love. I also have a stack of cookbook that I peruse and I ask each of my two daughters to choose a meal that they would like to eat. They like totally different things and often grumble about the others choice so I would love to get some fresh ideas from a new cookbook.
I love getting ideas from blogs and cookbooks. I have been trying recipes from a new slow cooker cookbook that I got last month.
I read tons of blogs and cookbooks. I'm always looking for new ideas.
I also like to take notes from restaurants I visit and recreate those meals. My grandmother is also a great resource for my cooking ideas.
I like the Cooking Light website. It seems like they have tested their recipes well.
I tend to stick to old fashioned cookbooks. We love Ina Garten, Sara Foster and the good ole New Basics. Feeding 5 kids can be tricky- they would love some new ideas I am sure!
I have taken your advice about getting my girls to help prepare meals. They are definately more interested in eating when they have made the meal! And less picky too!
I love Weelicious and am eager to see her cookbook. I'm so proud of her! I have used several of her online recipes. I'm going to make the pumpkin muffins this weekend. Good luck to me!
I get inspiration for family meals from cookbooks and blogs (including yours!). I also use allrecipes.com when I need to find a meal from a handful of ingredients I want to use.
…I take my queues from them for what to cook, and scour sites like yours for ideas!
I get my inspiration for making healthful family meals from a desire to raise my daughter to have a healthy relationship with food and a positive self-image. I've always been a health-conscious cook; my mom instilled a love for veggies in my siblings and me. She gets excited about fresh brussel sprouts roasted in the oven with just a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a little salt and fresh ground pepper! Who gets excited about brussel sprouts?? When I had my daughter, I was committed to doing the same for her that my mother did for me.
In the process of learning to feed my toddler, I got a little obsessive about being "super healthy." I was finding my cooking to be kind of bland and not really exciting. I started looking in cookbooks and online and was fortunate enough to find Mom's Kitchen Handbook. You have helped me so much Katie because I feel like you have given me "permission" to use some butter, a little sugar and even a generous amount of that heavenly gift we call cheese and not feel bad about it. You have helped me realize things can be "super healthy" and taste wonderful too! It has been inspiring to see my daughter desperately stretching and reaching to try to get an APPLE from the fruit bowl on the counter instead of a cookie! It's exciting to have her gobble up a big bowl of steel cut oats with blueberries, bananas and pumpkin seeds and say "more Mommy, more please!" Most of all, it has been inspiring to have my daughter seek to have our whole family at the table before we eat. Just last week she said: "Daddy? Daddy eat too?" When my husband came to the table she said: "Now we eat…together." If that's not inspiration enough for me to keep fun and healthy meals on the table…I don't know what is!
I get inspiration from several blogs, including this one, eating well magazine. Cooks illustrated, friends and cookbooks from the library.
In addition to your inspirational ideas, simplifying favorite cookbook recipes and other blogs i follow, i love good old fashioned print newspaper occasionally – especially the Sunday Editions – and leafing through the contents of the food section. The Sunday Times, Chicago Tribune Dining Section & good online versions – Observer Food Monthly.
I get inspiration from blogs and magazines!
Lately I have been getting inspiration from Pinterest to try new things. I tend to get stuck in the same dinners over and over.
I have family cookbooks that were passed down…and I also use Pinterest! Im not the best cook, and being recently married I am trying my best to find new meals. I love to bake, but I really need to step it up in the cooking category.
I get loads of recipes from Weelicious as well as pinterest. So many great ideas there!
I find my inspiration from either pinterest or from my collection of cookbooks. I LOVE to sit & look through cookbooks for fun ideas.
My inspiration comes from my family. The whole crazy lot of them. Hubby, pleased to eat just about any home cooked meal (on the road a lot), 16 year old step son- 6'5″ & eats anything, 14 year old step daughter- vegetarian, 3 year old son- eats just about anything, and 10 month old daughter- eats homemade baby food. I see what I have available and then build a healthy meal around it. The most important aspect of the meal is that we are all spending quality time together!
I am always looking for new inspiration, pinterest, and old cookbooks are a great resource but I just recently stumbled onto weelicious and am thrilled about her ideas/recipes!
I always get ideas when I'm out… restaurant menu items adapted to little tastes, other moms, the farmer's market. And the web when I need more inspiration!
My son has severe dairy allergies, so I search the food blogs and Pinterest looking for kid friendly food that is safe for him. So many of the classic comfort foods I grew up with have some form of dairy in them, so we are branching out and trying new things! We are even adjusting to using several Vegan specialty products in our recipes.
I get inspiration from family, friends, Pinterest, Twitter, FB, blogs, etc. I'm always looking for new ideas.
I find a lot of inspiration online. There are so many great cooking blogs and websites started by Moms and I love exploring them all.
I get my inspiration for food blogging sites, cookbooks and the farmers market!
I get inspiration to cook from food I ate as a childhood, or old family recipes but like to give modern/healthy twist to it. Sometime I just interpret recipes I see or come across based on my flavor preferences and ingredients I have handy.
I usually get my inspiration from the web and sometimes cookbooks. I really like finding new ideas on weelicious.com though.
I read blogs, look online, search pinterest and share recipes with friends. Meal planning is a challenge as I have 1 VERY picky child who refuses to eat anything except PB!
I love reading blogs for cooking ideas!
I get ideas from cookbooks, blogs, Pinterest, friends, family, tv shows.
I read a lot of blogs and try to take time to browse the cookbooks at the library.
Over the past several months, I've gotten most of my new ideas from pinterest and have found some great blogs in the process.
While home on maternity leave with #3 my girls and I would watch (and DVR) Barefoot Contessa and watch them together during that time in the day when everyone wants to act out and get cranky. We got to snuggle together on the couch and get excited about the different things that Ina was making. She was dubbed "The Contessa" by my 3 1/2 old. We all got inspired by her ideas and it made my girls get excited about food – they now help me grocery shop and cook. When they get picky I remind them how we saw the Barefoot Contessa make it! They really got it to it!
I like to use seasonal, local, and organic (if possible) ingredients. So, my biggest inspiration is the farmer's market. But I also love reading my favorite blogs, facebook, and pinterest.
These days, I get the majority of my meal ideas from following many talented food bloggers and from Pinterest!
Well, I don't like sounding like a broken record, but I do get my inspiration from a number of food blogs that I subscribe to, including yours! It's easy for me to see these in my inbox everyday and go from there. Thanks for being an inspiration for me.
I recently went to hear Mark Bittman speak and left with a couple of his cookbooks which I've been enjoying. I love having access to so many ideas on the web–generally get ideas from a multitude of sites and friends. Whenever I visit someone, I always ask them to share a couple of favorite recipes with me and have collected some great ones that way.
Iowa girls eats and whatever I google!! I save alot of recipes and even have my great grandmothers recipe card box.
I use All Recipe, Pinterest and Food Network.
I use cookbooks, Pinterest, blogs, friends, I'm always searching for new healthy recipes that my family will love!
I love Weelicious. I gleen lots of inspiration from various blogs I read and things I've sceen on the internet.
Blogs, blogs, blogs, love finding new recipes through people's food blogs. Weelicious certainly has simple and delicious recipes, made 3 in just one weekend and they were all a success.
I get inspiration from the various blogs that I read and also from my collection of cookbooks.
I surf the net to get ideas.
I get my ideas for meals from blogs such as Weelicious.com and 100daysofrealfood.com. I also read lunch box books and vegetarian cookbooks. There's so much to try!
I like to work with my kids and husband to see what they are in the mood for and then hunt around my cookbooks, pintrest and the web to see what new recipes I can find.
My inspiration and ideas comes from my children. Especially my son. He'll ask why can't we prepare the veggies on hand that way. Or he will combine spices that I would have never dreamed of into a combination that tastes great. Our homemade pizza lets each child add their unique ingredients to their section of the pizza. Cooking is a fun adventure in our home.
I've always loved food and the different ways in which you can use ingredients to make beautiful meals. When I married my husband, we went to Morocco to visit his family and I fell in love with the country. I was able to visit the different cities and walk around. There were fresh fruit, vegetables, spices, and beautifully cooked meals creating an aroma that entranced everyone walking by. Soon I began to learn how to make Moroccan home-cooked meals. I like to use fresh ingredients and I plan the meals by infusing some Moroccan ingredients like preserved lemons, fresh ginger, saffron, or turmeric with some ingredients from my own culture (Cuban) and try to make it a family affair.
I follow food blogs, look through magazines and cook books. I always cook healthy meals and do not use processed or prepackaged foods. That is how I grew up cooking with my mom and hope my kids will too. I also just walk through the produce section and pick up key ingredients first then plan the meal around what I have found!
I look at real / whole foods blogs, and a few cookbooks I have as well. I've also gotten recipes from cookbooks I borrow from the public library.


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GOP Senators Call For Special Session on Corporate Taxes [Courant]
HARTFORD — Prompted by fears that General Electric Co. might leave Connecticut, two top Republican senators called Friday for a special legislative session to repeal the state's unitary tax on large corporations.
Senate Republican leader Len Fasano and Sen. Tony Hwang, whose district includes GE, said that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy could send a strong message to the business community by getting rid of the tax.
The unitary tax, approved in the most recent legislative session, would increase taxes for corporations like GE that have operations in multiple states.
But spokesmen for both Malloy and the Senate Democrats said Friday that a special session is not necessary.
The concept of the unitary tax is not new, but some business advocates say they never thought it would be approved because it has been defeated repeatedly in the past. As far back as 2009, GE's director of state tax policy testified before the legislature against the unitary tax, which is also known as "combined reporting."
As part of a compromise proposed by Malloy, the legislature voted in special session this spring to postpone the unitary tax until 2016.
The tax was to have started in the current calendar year, retroactive to Jan 1. Although estimates have varied, lawmakers say the tax could cost Connecticut corporations $38 million in the first year.
"While you may not have the constitutional authority to order a repeal of the unitary tax, you can call a special session so that the legislature can take action on this critically important matter," Fasano and Hwang wrote to Malloy.
"In doing so, you would be sending a resounding message — to legislators, the business community and the public, alike — that we must take measurable steps to ensure GE and all Connecticut-based businesses remain valued partners and that state government is committed to creating an economic environment that fosters growth and prosperity.
"Gov. Malloy, we cannot afford to sit back and wait. Any delay will only place further doubts within our business community that the unitary tax will ever be repealed. The time to act is now."
Hwang, who says he's working to save jobs in his district, added, "We must remember that GE is but one of thousands of businesses in Connecticut, and all of them are feeling the same built-up frustration about the untenable nature of state government's spending, taxation and regulation."
But the Democrats who control the state Senate had a different viewpoint.
"Once again, Connecticut Republicans are siding with Wall Street corporations and their legions of tax lawyers and accountants instead of Main Street businesses that can't afford those same luxuries and those same tax loopholes," said Adam Joseph, a spokesman for the Senate Democrats. "Connecticut was the last state in New England to enact combined reporting for corporations. Democrats remain focused on our positive state employment numbers and our increasing economic output."
Malloy's spokesman, Devon Puglia, said, "We do not intend to call a special session on this topic. However, if the senator has a thought-out, thoughtful, realistic proposal that doesn't involve phantom savings, we are happy to listen to it."
GE has publicly condemned the unitary tax and other taxes on businesses included in the state's new budget. It has also said it is investigating moving its headquarters out of Fairfield to another state. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited GE headquarters in Fairfield last month in an attempt to lure the company to nearby Westchester County, N.Y., and governors in Texas and Georgia have also made pitches.

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Jay Hop of the group bulletproof boys appeared as a director and made him expect to broadcast next week.
MBC "Under Ninety", which was broadcasted at 6:25 pm on December 29, was featured at the year-end special feature "Weekly Reserve Stone". First, the 'World Cup' was held. The corner of 'Jungdeok World Cup' is a corner where each team should have their choice and then get a choice of Girin girlfriend, Yelin.
Thereafter, a 2 ~ 3x dance competition was held for each team. As a result, the performance team took the top spot and got three coupons for overnight delivery. Also, the '2018 MBC Entertainment Grand Prize' celebration stage member selection contest followed. In the performance team, the top six riders in the second rank announcement ceremony are selected for each of the vocal and lap teams. After showing the choreography of 'We are young', the three MCs of 'Weekly Reserve Stone', Lee Teuk, Shin Dong, and Yelin's chosen members are on stage. In the vocal team, Jung Jin Sung and Kim Jung Woo are useful in the lap team and Park Sung Won is chosen.
The results of the second ranking announcement were also disclosed. It was Yoon Tae-kyung who was the winner of the team competition and the surviving vocal team. Yoon said, "I could not imagine that I would come to such a high place, but I will be Yoon Tae-kyung, who can show his talent with hard work." Followed by Yoon Tae Kyung, followed by Shin Chan Chan, Seismic Zone 3, Jin Jung Sung, and Kim Tae Wu. Kim Young-won ranked 6th and Bae Hyun-joon ranked 7th.
There were five dropouts on the lap team. First, Kim Seong-ho was ranked first and Choi Soo-min ranked second. Kim Seong-ho, who was the top prize winner, beat Choi Soo-min and said, "I thank all the supporters who voted for me and everyone, and I think everyone did a good stage without regret. Park Jin-oh was ninth, and he was eliminated. Kim Jeong-joon and Jeon Hyun-joon Nam Do-hyun Chang-lui Chang-hoon has become a dropout. The lap team encouraged each other to come forward and made a warm and last greeting.
On the other hand, Jay Hop of the group bulletproof boy band appeared on the trailer and attracted attention. For some reason, Jay Hop was in 'Under Ninety', and his audience was curious as to who would be his preliminary stone.
MBC entertainment program "Under Ninety", which was broadcasted on the 29th, was the second ranking announcement.
Prior to the announcement on the day, the members spent a good time with 'Super Junior' and 'Girlfriend' with her girlfriend Jerin. I was able to get a night out through games such as letting Jerin go first.
The second ranking announcement ceremony was held in earnest. Yoon Tae – kyung won the first place in the vocal team. He said, "I could not imagine coming up to such a high position, but I will be a Yoon Tae Kyung who will show his ability with hard work." The first place in the performance team was Umutti and the second place was evangelism. Kim Seong-ho was ranked first in the lap team and Choi Min-min was ranked second.
Except for the vocal team that won the first place in the past confrontation, the performance team and the lap team were eliminated from Gamba, Eddie, Kosuke, Kim, Kang, Kim, Jeong, Hyunjoon, Namdo, They shared their last greetings with members.
In the trailer, Jehov, a bulletproof boy band, appeared. He was instructed to practice choreography and then was shown his choice of his best idol, making viewers wonder.


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Q: How to group the result of a query based on the parameter value How we can group the result of the query depending up on the parameter passed.
A small stored procedure is shown below. parameter Param is passed to the procedure.
If param value is "f" the result must  group by starttime otherwise by using formid. How can i do this. ???I tried the code show below but its not working .
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS Test;
CREATE PROCEDURE Test (Param VARCHAR (2))

 BEGIN
  SELECT formid, starttime
    FROM tbevaluationscoreinfo
   CASE Param
     when 'F'
      then group by starttime;
     else
      group by formid;

   end
END;

A: One way is to move branching up a level:
IF Param = 'F' THEN
  SELECT starttime, count(formid)
  FROM tbevaluationscoreinfo
  GROUP BY starttime;
ELSE
  SELECT formid, count(starttime)
  FROM tbevaluationscoreinfo
  GROUP BY formid;
END IF;

Another, less recommended solution, is dynamic SQL.
And the third possible solution is:
SELECT
  case Param when 'F' then starttime else formid end as group_column,
  count(formid),
  count(starttime)
FROM
  tbevaluationscoreinfo
GROUP BY
  group_column;

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CHP officer rescued after driver slams into patrol car in Garden Grove, trapping him
An officer with the California Highway Patrol was taken to the hospital Sunday night after a driver slammed into the rear of his vehicle on the westbound 22 Freeway in Garden Grove, trapping him inside.
Calls about the incident came in at around 8:45 p.m., according to Captain Jose Perez with the Orange County Fire Authority.
The officer had pulled over on the freeway to help a vehicle that was experiencing mechanical problems when the driver of a Chevy Tahoe rear-ended his patrol car and also struck the other vehicle, a white Porsche Cayenne, ONSCENE.TV reported.
"When we arrived on scene, we had one officer stuck in his car. He had to be extricated with the jaws of life by our truck company," Captain Perez said. "We had two other victims in a small SUV."
Wreckage of a CHP patrol officer's car after being rear-ended by a Chevy Tahoe on the WB 22 Freeway Dec. 4, 2022 (ONSCENE.TV)
CHP officer seen being loaded into the back of an ambulance in Garden Grove on Dec. 4, 2022 (ONSCENE.TV)
Wreckage of a Chevy Tahoe and Porsche Cayenne seen after the Dec. 4, 2022 incident in Garden Grove (ONSCENE.TV)
The officer was taken to the University of California, Irvine Medical Center with unknown injuries. It is unknown if the other two victims were also transported to the hospital.
All lanes of the 22 Freeway in Garden Grove were shut down for about an hour while authorities investigated and cleared the roadway.
It is unclear if the driver of the Tahoe was detained or whether drugs and alcohol were a factor in the collision.
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McCann's Newly Promoted North American President Is Getting Expanded Duties
Chris Macdonald's responsibilities extend beyond New York
Chris Macdonald has been promoted to president of McCann North America, reflecting his role in the agency's recent wave of new business wins since the Brit moved to the U.S. as president of its flagship office in 2013.
Under Macdonald's direction—his first tour of duty in the states—McCann Erickson has won major new clients including the New York Lottery, Reckitt Benckiser, Choice Hotels, MGM Resorts and State Street Global Advisors. It marked the beginning of the agency's turnaround under McCann Worldgroup chief Harris Diamond, who was named to that job in late 2012. The agency also grew organically with assignments from existing clients like Verizon (Verizon Wireless), Nestlé (Nespresso) and MasterCard. In addition to General Mills, MasterCard, RB, and Nestlé, the New York agency also works on the network's global Microsoft and L'Oréal businesses.
Diamond praised Macdonald's new-business performance as well as his management of McCann's diversified offerings.
"We live in an omniplatform world, and what most of our clients are looking for is an integrated approach and bringing our marketing partners together on their behalf," Diamond said in a late-night call from China. "Chris has already shown his tremendous capabilities in doing that. But this promotion goes beyond that. He's a true leader and gets the best out of our people."
In the new role, Macdonald's responsibilities will expand to include Casanova//McCann, McCann Detroit, twofifteenmccann, McCann Minneapolis and MacLaren McCann in Canada, which consists of agency offices in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Before taking on the job of New York president in 2013, Macdonald had been CEO of McCann London, which he first joined in 2005 as client services director. He'll continue to report to McCann Worldgroup president Luca Lindner.
While Macdonald's title is not new, the additional responsibilities are. The last exec to serve as North American president, Robert LePlae, joined the agency in 2009 after working as head of TBWA North America. Unlike Macdonald, LePlae's responsibilities did not include the network's New York office, which then was run by Thom Gruhler, an account exec who was close to the agency's Verizon account.
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They're All Dead Now
October 27, 2021 October 27, 2021 ~ Frank Hudson
In the last two posts I've mentioned how early 20th century Irish poet Joseph Campbell used the concision of Imagist poetry to present eerie folkloric material. However, today's piece, written some 70 years later by Dave Moore, shows how the reiterative storytelling methods used in many traditional ballads can still work. Because of the way it tells its story, it's somewhat longer than usual pieces here, but well worth 8 minutes of your time.
I quite vividly remember the first time I heard this song. I'd known Dave for over a decade then, but there was something new: he told me that he had written some songs and I offered to record them. I setup a cassette recorder in his living room where a patinaed old upright piano sat against a wall next to a set of framed pocket doors that he and I had spent some time stripping a few years before. I had a pair of Radio Shack microphones to hook up to record him. I think one of my mic stands was a second-hand-store gooseneck floor lamp that had given up its socket for a mic clip.
I don't recall most of what Dave played and I recorded that day. Maybe four or five songs, but the last one was the piece I'll perform for you today. Dave was a powerful, pounding piano player in those days, and the old upright was ringing out pretty good as he gave forth the lyrics of "They're All Dead Now" loudly over the top of that. By the end of its 11 verses, his voice was getting ragged — but the story he was singing was powerful enough that it probably should wear one out. He finished, and his voice was too.
The tape I made is now long lost, though "They're All Dead Now" remained recorded in my memory. Also to my recollection, that day was the day that the idea of the LYL Band that you've sometimes heard here as part of this Project took hold.
I think we may have tried to play or record it once or twice since, but it's a difficult piece to bring off. Effective singing of long ballads in this kind of traditional form and length is extraordinarily difficult. While trained singers have built up stamina and technique to do that, this untrained singer will testify that it is as wearing as singing a set of hardcore punk — and since traditional ballad singing often uses sparse accompaniment, you have nowhere to hide and nothing else to bring the fury or shock to the audience other than the song's story and one's voice. Which is why, even in folk clubs among aficionados, long ballads are an iffy thing. The emotion too often invoked is boredom. Polite audiences will not throw things at the ballad singer, but they will fall into talk among themselves, and some will drop their eyes to half-mast and tune out to thoughts of more exciting music or leaf raking.
But of course, these songs can work. To build up to doing this performance I listened all morning to June Tabor recordings. Tabor (and Anne Briggs) are two of the best I know at performing this kind of material, and Tabor often uses instrumental backing (Briggs more often sang unaccompanied). I wasn't ready to expose just my bare voice for this piece.
The piano part you hear is actually two piano tracks. Here I was thinking of the simple repeated motifs that John Cale,* with his association with what was called Minimalist composed music, would sometimes play. I added a synth part, which is more faithful to what Tabor would sometimes use, where the easy to transport and amplify electronic instrument serves almost as some droney acoustic folk instruments might at a traditional ballad sing.
I sang my vocal at my most energized part of the day and managed about four takes, and what you'll hear is the best of that. I wouldn't say my vocal timbre is pretty, but then maybe this song can survive that.
Yes, Dave's song. I still think it's a great song, same as the first time I heard it. The story it tells is historical,** it happened on the West Coast of Scotland just as the lyric says in 1618. Though it's heavily refrained and has those 11 verses, it still doesn't waste much time, dropping you in media res and progressing in presenting a horror that should be more frightening than witches.
Illustrating your 17th century Scottish Facebook feed: political instability, patriarchy, and religious fervor (or excuses).
I used to dream of hearing a great singer sing this song, but folk music's principles say that a song needs singers rather than necessarily waiting for that. June Tabor is my age,*** I'm not sure she still performs. Rhiannon Giddens, the ball is in your court. Contact me.
But the rest of you can hear my best at transforming Dave's song right now. There's a player gadget some will see below, and otherwise this highlighted hyperlink will also play it.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/parlando/Theyre_All_Dead_Now.mp3
*Yes, I'm still on a Velvet Underground jag this month.
**You might think 1618 is fairly late in the ugly history of witch prosecutions, but if you go to this account from the town of Irvine in Scotland I link here, you'll read that "In 1650, a total of 17 women were also executed for witchcraft – 12 in March and 5 in June. Other burnings similarly took place in the town in 1662 and 1682." So, there was enough of this that the story of Margaret Barclay, John Stewart, and Isobel Crawford is sometimes not included in round ups of the atrocities. Walter Scott did his own investigation in the 19th century, and the Irvine hyperlink above includes some of Scott's account.
***October – besides being the occasion for this week's Halloween series – is also Dave's birthday month. Happy Birthday Dave! Age has taken some ounces off of Dave's keyboard pounding, but I still hope to present more of his voice here as part of the Parlando Project.
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worthingethnographic says:
My God, this is powerful. Thank you for this project and for this specific post. I used to work in south India, where the folk ballad tradition is still kept alive. This reminded me that my ancestors in Ayrshire also have plenty of stories – and maybe we could do more to hold and honour them. Bless you for leading the way on that.
I assign a lot of that power to Dave's words on this one. As I expressed at the end, part of my hope for some of the pieces here is that someone with a better voice and performance ability than I will take them up.
Dave Moore says:
I was deep into Colin Wilson at the time I wrote this; as I recall I found the story in his The Occult, though maybe it was Mysteries. And Frank's right, my vision of the song was more of a straight pounding rush of horror, not that I ever could deliver well what I heard in my head. I remember we played it at a local open stage (a restaurant, another inspiration for the band name) and one of my neighbors asked, "Why are so many of your songs about dead people?" Why not? Another listener responded, "Let's go to bed."


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Still enjoying the afterglow of yesterday's beautiful bandhara feast and gathering of many old Neem Karoli Baba devotees here in western Mass., and getting ready to head over to play bass with Krishna Das this evening at Montague's Maezumi Institute.
1) I'll be playing with Shyamdas in Lincoln MA next Thursday, 18 September at 7:00pm at the Home of Ted and Prajna Hallstrom: 207 Concord Rd, Lincoln MA, right near Walden Pond. Cost is $20, Drop on in, or to register, email Prajna at shaktimata @ aol.com It's being billed as an evening of devotional teachings and song, with mystic poetry and Sanskrit readings from India's purely Non-dual, Grace-filled Bhakti tradition. Come join us!
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Mandatory Minimum Penalties in Federal Sentencing
Posted on June 29, 2018 by Michael Lowe.
Congress Decides Your Prison Sentence with Certain Federal Crimes
Our modern system of mandatory minimum sentencing in federal cases arguably began with the passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Congress enthusiastically targeted drug "kingpins" for explicit punishment, mandating that the federal judge must sentence these defendants, upon conviction, to imprisonment in a federal facility for at least 10 years (first offense) and 20 years (second offense). Middle management in the drug organizations was to receive mandatory minimum sentences as well: 5 years (first offense) and 10 years (second offense).
Two years later, Congress expanded the reach of the Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to include those convicted of conspiracy in the drug operations. And Congress' Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Train was off and running down the federal tracks, until we have the convoluted and controversial set of mandatory minimum sentences facing federal defendants today.
This isn't new policy. As the United States Sentencing Commission notes in its Overview of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System (2017), Congress has mandated specific punishments within criminal laws almost since our nation began. In the Crimes Act of 1790, seven offenses were defined with a corresponding penalty of death; these included the crimes of treason, murder, and rescuing someone who had been convicted of a capital crime. Overview, page 2, footnote 1.
What are Mandatory Minimum Penalties?
What does this mean for anyone arrested and charged on federal criminal law violations? If you are facing conviction on a federal charge, then it's important to understand which charges have leeway insofar as prosecutorial negotiation (plea bargaining) and judicial discretion (sentencing hearings) and which do not.
If you come before the federal bench for sentencing on a charge that corresponds to a mandatory minimum established by Congress, then the legislators have decided your punishment. There's no flexibility in sentencing here. You do the time, period. (There are exceptions, as discussed below.)
Mandatory minimum sentences are defined by federal statutes passed by Congress. These laws (1) define federal crimes and (2) include automatic prison terms for their violation.
Common Mandatory Minimum Felonies
Today, according to US Sentencing Commission research, most federal convictions with mandatory minimum sentences correspond to charges involving:
drugs (Controlled Substances Act violations);
firearms;
identity theft; and
child sex offenses (child porn or sexual contact with a minor).
Those accused of drug trafficking are most likely to face a mandatory minimum sentence today. Nationally, drug trafficking charges are involved with approximately 67% (two-thirds) of mandatory minimum sentences being imposed.
The War on Drugs explains this high percentage rate among those accused of federal drug charges. However, for any defendant arrested on federal crimes based upon child porn and child sexual exploitation, the likelihood of facing a mandatory minimum sentence is high with growing Congressional focus on fighting child porn (especially on the internet).
The Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today (PROTECT) Act was passed in 2003. It sets new mandatory minimum sentences for child sexual abuse and child pornography crimes. Under the PROTECT Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(3)(B), the mandatory minimum sentence for producing child pornography is 15 years for first-time offenders, 25 years of imprisonment for repeat child exploitation offenders, and 35 years for offenders with more than two prior child exploitation convictions.
Note: challenges to the constitutionality of the PROTECT Act failed. US v. Williams, 553 U.S. 285, 128 S. Ct. 1830, 170 L. Ed. 2d 650 (2008). See, "Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law," written by Linda Greenhouse and published in the New York Times on May 20, 2008.
Congress focuses upon the possession or use of a variety of firearms "during, in relation to, or in furtherance of a crime" with mandatory minimum sentencing defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924. The crimes here involve either those defined as "crimes of violence" or drug trafficking.
Tricky here for the defendant is the risk that the prosecutor will "stack" the mandatory minimum sentences, charging multiple defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in the same proceeding, which will force the firearms sentences to be served consecutively to any sentences imposed for the underlying offenses and other section 924(c) offenses.
The Supreme Court of the United States has approved prosecutorial stacking of firearms violations. See Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129, 113 S. Ct. 1993, 124 L. Ed. 2d 44 (1993).
Identity theft is another growing area of criminal activity that is of rising concern for the federal government. In 2004, Congress passed the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, which imposes a 2 year mandatory minimum sentence on charges of aggravated identity theft.
Specifically, a two year prison sentence must be imposed consecutively to any other prison term when someone "during and in relation to…" committing felonies including theft, false statements, fraud, or offenses related to nationality and citizenship or immigration (like forged passports or visas).
The Act also forbids the judge to reduce the sentence for the underlying felony (theft, etc.) and again allows stacking of the violations.
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Realities
There has long been an outcry against Congress unilaterally setting up mandatory punishments for all defendants and ignoring the realities that may impact the particular case. Judges may want to use their discretion to impose a sentence that is more equitable and just with the full agreement of both prosecution and defense, but they are unable to do so. See, e.g., Lowenthal, Gary T. "Mandatory sentencing laws: Undermining the effectiveness of determinate sentencing reform." Cal. L. Rev. 81 (1993): 61.
In fact, the injustice of these mandatory sentences defined by the legislature and not by the judiciary has long been the subject of controversy and debate. Read, for example, the American Bar Association Standard 18-1.2, where the ABA position is explained regarding the Legislative Function in Sentencing and specifically its Standard 18-3.21, which states:
(a) The legislature should authorize sentence of an individual offender to a term of total confinement.
(b) A legislature should not prescribe a minimum term of total confinement for any offense.
Nevertheless, these statutory sentences are imposed in federal courts all the time today. This is especially true for those who are convicted of federal drug crimes. From the United States Sentencing Commission, we know the tremendous impact that these mandatory sentences have on individuals arrested and charged in the federal system.
Consider the following facts for fiscal year 2017:
Over 60 percent (62.7%) of offenders convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty did not receive relief from the penalty and were subject to the mandatory minimum penalty at sentencing (13.7% of all federal offenders).
Drug trafficking offenses accounted for almost two-thirds (67.8%) of the offenses carrying a mandatory minimum penalty, followed by fraud (6.5%), child pornography (6.0%), and sexual abuse (5.5%).
Almost 40 percent (37.3%) of offenders convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum were relieved of the mandatory minimum penalty because:
5% received relief solely by providing the government with substantial assistance;
3% received relief solely through the statutory safety valve provision; and
5% received relief through both the statutory safety valve provision and by providing substantial assistance to the government.
Federal Crimes with Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Not every federal defendant who faces conviction on a federal charge must face the challenge of dealing with a congressional sentencing decision already made in his case. Many do, because there are so many ways that the federal laws can work to impose these mandatory minimum penalties.
Three Ways a Minimum Sentence Gets Activated Under Federal Law
Anyone convicted of a federal crime may be sentenced according to a mandatory minimum penalty defined by Congress if his case involves:
An offense that details the mandatory minimum (the crime carrying the mandatory sentence);
The charge contains a reference to another underlying offense which carries one; or
Particulars regarding the offender's criminal history capture a minimum sentencing requirement.
1. Defined in the Offense
In these situations, the mandatory minimum sentence applies pursuant to the language within the law that defines the offense. As an example, if someone is arrested on federal meth charges, then 21 U.S.C. § 841(a),(b)(1) states that any conviction for trafficking 50+ grams or more of methamphetamine "shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years …[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not place on probation or suspend the sentence of any person sentenced under this subparagraph."
2. Triggering Offense
Circumstances surrounding the case may incorporate a mandatory minimum penalty. One example here is the defendant's possession or use of a firearm in connection with an underlying offense. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), "… [unless] a greater minimum sentence is otherwise provided by this subsection or by any other provision of law, any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime … uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence or drug trafficking crime: (i) be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years; (ii) if the firearm is brandished, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years; and (iii) if the firearm is discharged, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years. (The sentence becomes harsher if certain kinds of firearms are involved, like machine guns.) "
3. Criminal History
The defendant's past may come back to haunt him (or her) resulting in a mandatory minimum sentence. For instance, under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), there is a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years if a person "…has three previous convictions by any court referred to in section 922(g)(1) of this title for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both, committed on occasions different from one another, such person shall be … imprisoned not less than fifteen years…."
Exceptions: Safety Valve and Cooperating with the Government
For those facing mandatory minimum penalties as defined by Congress, the statutes leave little room for negotiation; they even include specific language instructing the judge that probation and parole are not allowed. (See the full language of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a),(b)(1) as an example here.)
However, defendants with experienced and aggressive defense counsel will be made aware of two exceptions to the imposition of the mandatory minimum sentences. These are known as (1) the safety valve and (2) cooperation.
1. Safety Valve Exception
The "safety valve" exception works in federal drug cases. It is not available in other kinds of federal charges with mandatory minimums. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)-(5).
The Safety Value Exception consists of a test with five (5) hurdles for the defendant to jump. As described in §5C1.2 of the United States Sentencing Manual, these are:
(1) the defendant does not have more than 1 criminal history point, as determined under the sentencing guidelines before application of subsection (b) of §4A1.3 (Departures Based on Inadequacy of Criminal History Category);
(2) the defendant did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) in connection with the offense;
(3) the offense did not result in death or serious bodily injury to any person;
(4) the defendant was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense, as determined under the sentencing guidelines and was not engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise, as defined in 21 U.S.C. § 848; and
(5) not later than the time of the sentencing hearing, the defendant has truthfully provided to the Government all information and evidence the defendant has concerning the offense or offenses that were part of the same course of conduct or of a common scheme or plan, but the fact that the defendant has no relevant or useful other information to provide or that the Government is already aware of the information shall not preclude a determination by the court that the defendant has complied with this requirement.
If the defendant can show the trial judge at the sentencing hearing that he passes all five hurdles, then the judge may impose a sentence that is lower than the mandatory minimum sentence defined in the charge. (The judge isn't required to impose a below mandatory minimum sentence.)
Where does the judge go to figure out this lower sentence? He references the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Under Section 5C1.2 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual, application of the "safety valve" results in a reduction of two (2) levels.
For details on how the Sentencing Guidelines (e.g., levels) work in a federal drug case, read our discussion in "Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Conspiracy To Distribute Controlled Substance Cases."
The federal government encourages defendants to cooperate with its efforts to enforce the federal laws. Accordingly, Congress has enacted statutes that work to motivate those accused of serious felony crimes to help law enforcement in their efforts.
This forms the second exception to mandatory minimums and it applies to all federal offenses (not just drug crimes). If the accused cooperates with the United States Attorney General's Office, then he may not have to serve all that time that is defined by Congress in the mandatory minimum sentence.
This can be a difficult road for the defendant in many ways. Not the least of which is that his defense attorney cannot argue the cooperation exception to the judge at the sentencing hearing.
This exception can only be requested to apply to the accused's sentencing by the prosecutor. The judge will decide whether or not to apply the cooperation exception to the mandatory sentence defined in the federal statute.
This motion by the prosecutor can be made pursuant to Rule 35(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure after sentencing. The prosecution can also file this request before the judge decides sentencing pursuant to Section 3553(e) of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, as explained in the Sentencing Commission's commentary to USSG 5k1.1:
"A defendant's assistance to authorities in the investigation of criminal activities has been recognized in practice and by statute as a mitigating sentencing factor. The nature, extent, and significance of assistance can involve a broad spectrum of conduct that must be evaluated by the court on an individual basis. Latitude is, therefore, afforded the sentencing judge to reduce a sentence based upon variable relevant factors….The sentencing judge must, however, state the reasons for reducing a sentence under this section. 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c). The court may elect to provide its reasons to the defendant in camera and in writing under seal for the safety of the defendant or to avoid disclosure of an ongoing investigation."
Other Potential Sentence Reductions: Bureau of Prisons' Discretion
There are ways to have a sentence reduced with the individual not having to serve the full sentence after the sentencing hearing as well. These are found in laws passed Congress allowing for discretionary reductions by the Bureau of Prisons. They include the following:
1. Boot Camp (Shock Incarceration)
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4046, Congress empowers the Bureau of Prisons with the ability to place in a shock incarceration program any person who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than 12, but not more than 30, months, for a time period not to exceed 6 months if:
The person consents to that placement;
They agree to adhere to a highly regimented schedule that provides the strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, drill, and ceremony characteristic of military basic training; and
They participate in appropriate job training and educational programs (including literacy programs) and drug, alcohol, and other counseling programs.
Additionally, they must:
be U.S. or naturalized citizens;
be in prison for the first time or with only minor prior incarceration;
have a minimum custody security classification;
as a general rule, be under the age of 35 years; and
no detainers or pending charges.
If the Director of the Bureau of Prisons decides the inmate has successfully completed the required period of shock incarceration, "boot camp" can reduce prison time for someone convicted and serving time by one year or more.
2. Good Time
Under 18 U.S.C. 3624, a prisoner shall be released by the Bureau of Prisons on the date of the expiration of the prisoner's term of imprisonment, less any time credited toward the service of the prisoner's sentence for "satisfactory behavior." This is called "good time credit."
Only prisoners serving a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year  (excluding life sentences) may receive credit toward the service of the prisoner's sentence as a "good time" reduction.
Satisfactory behavior for "good time" reduction includes:
Full credit if the prisoner has displayed exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations during the year, as determined by the Bureau of Prisons;
No credit or such lesser credit as the Bureau determines to be appropriate if there has not been complete exemplary compliance; and
Special consideration is given for any prisoner who has earned, or is making satisfactory progress toward earning, a high school diploma or an equivalent degree during the time period.
While 18 U.S.C. 3624 provides that 54 days per year can be deducted from sentence, from a criminal defense perspective the reality is that the Bureau of Prisons grants "good time" reductions of 47 days per year (or around 13%).
3. Drug Rehabilitation
For some drug crime defendants, there is another possible vehicle for sentence reduction by the Bureau of Prisons provided by Congress in 18 U.S.C. §3621(e). Congress offers this sentence reduction as an "incentive for prisoners' successful completion" of a treatment program to help them with their addiction issues.
Here, the defendant's sentence can be reduced by up to one (1) year if:
He volunteers to participate in drug rehab;
The defendant's substance abuse problem is properly authenticated in his record;
He was convicted of a non-violence offense; and
There are no detainers or INS holds.
4. Halfway House (Prerelease Custody)
In 18 U.S.C. 3624(c), Congress instructs the Bureau of Prisons to assist the prisoner in his reentry into society by allowing him to serve up to the last 12 months of his sentence in "prerelease custody."
The Bureau is to allow the prisoner to live "…under conditions that will afford that prisoner a reasonable opportunity to adjust to and prepare for the reentry of that prisoner into the community."
This may include a community correctional facility or home confinement. Prerelease custody covers either the shorter of either: (a) 10% of the term of imprisonment of that prisoner, or (b) six (6) months.
Aggressive Criminal Defense in Federal Cases Facing Mandatory Sentencing
Obviously, criminal defense lawyers look for ways to argue around the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences. One of the key components to an aggressive defense here is negotiation with the federal prosecutor on the charges that the defendant faces.
However, things are more difficult insofar as plea negotiations today than they have been in years past. This is because of the stance taken by the current Attorney General for the United States, Jeff Sessions, and the instructions he has given to the Offices of the Attorney General throughout the federal districts.
In May 2017, Attorney General Sessions issued a formal memorandum giving his directive to all federal prosecutors, which is within his purview as the top federal prosecutor in the federal government.
Now, prosecutors are to go for the most serious charges they can find, looking for the harshest sentences they can put together in their case. If they want to agree in negotiation to a different (lesser) sentence, then they are warned to "carefully consider" this decision. Furthermore, they are to have that decision for a lesser sentence okayed by their boss and then they have to document all their reasons for deviating from the harshest possible sentence in the file.
Specifically, Sessions instructs all federal prosecutors (emphasis added):
First, it is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense. …. By definition, the most serious offenses are those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences. There will be circumstances in which good judgment would lead a prosecutor to conclude that a strict application of the above charging policy is not warranted. In that case, prosecutors should carefully consider whether an exception may be justified. Consistent with longstanding Department of Justice policy, any decision to vary from the policy must be approved by a United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General, or a supervisor designated by the United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General, and the reasons must be documented in the file .
Second, prosecutors must disclose to the sentencing court all facts that impact the sentencing guidelines or mandatory minimum sentences, and should in all cases seek a reasonable sentence under the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553. In most cases, recommending a sentence within the advisory guideline range will be appropriate. Recommendations for sentencing departures or variances require supervisory approval, and the reasoning must be documented in the file. Any inconsistent previous policy of the Department of Justice relating to these matters is rescinded, effective today.
For more on this change in Department of Justice policy from a criminal defense perspective, read our discussion in "New 2017 Federal Drug Policy From Attorney General Jeff Sessions."
This change in policy does not mean that criminal defense lawyers cannot negotiate significant sentencing reductions for their clients. It does mean that mandatory minimum sentencing, despite its controversy, is more powerful than it has been in a decade.
Accordingly, anyone believing they are being investigated for a federal offense is wise to obtain experienced federal defense counsel as soon as possible.
Posted on June 29, 2018 by Michael Lowe , on Drug Crimes, InDepth Articles, Sex Crimes, Trafficking Charges, Weapons Charges


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