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I'm really having trouble following your thread because your responses seem to respond to a new collateral topic in each iteration. The point you made above, as I understand it, was to present home confinement as something reserved for high-profile cases by citing to a manual from 1987. When I pointed out that no actually, home confinement is the norm for low-level crimes nowadays, and also if you want a more recent reference point for how it works at the federal level you can look at what the Bureau of Prison did because of the pandemic, you shifted your point. You then claim that I think rapists and burglars are on the same tier as picketing congress. What? No, that's not the point at all. And this is getting into quibbling territory, but the feds virtually never deal with rapes and burglaries unless those things happen on federal property or somehow involve crossing state lines. And besides, the BOP pandemic home confinement release plan explicitly disqualified sex offenses.
This is so weird. Of course people have zero points. Literally everybody in the entire world is born with zero points. All that zero points means in what you quoted is how many prior convictions that person has under USSG §4A1.2. That means that even hardened criminals at some point had zero points.
True, but you never see them in federal court, or if you did they would probably be subject to an upward departure under 4A1.3
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