United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines Manual 2025: Annotated, Including amendments effective November 1, 2025 Paperback – December 9, 2025

2025 - 2026 Edition updated with all amendments.The complete federal sentencing guidelines handbook including amendments effective November 1, 2025 and earlier.Includes all tables, appendices, and full index.WHAT’S NEW IN THE 2025 GUIDELINES MANUAL?Amendment 832 (Circuit Conflicts)Addressed two circuit conflicts in §2B3.1 and §4A1.2. Part A revised the §2B3.1(b)(2)(B) 2-level enhancement to apply only if a person’s freedom was physically restricted (e.g., tied or confined) and clarified the 6-level enhancement to uniformly account for firearm use during robbery. Parallel changes were made to §2B3.2 and §2E2.1. Part B clarified that traffic stops are not “intervening arrests” under the §4A1.2(a)(2) single-sentence rule.Amendment 833 (Drug Offenses)Revised §2D1.1 to address low-level roles and mens rea. Part A capped base offense levels at 30 or 32 based on §3B1.2 adjustments and added guidance for applying mitigating role adjustments (§2D1.1(e)(2)). Part B changed the mens rea for the §2-level enhancement for fentanyl marketing from “willful blindness or conscious avoidance” to “reckless disregard.”Amendment 834 (Firearms Offenses)Revised §2K2.1 to address machinegun conversion devices and added a tiered offense characteristic (§2K2.1(b)(5)) capped at level 29, applicable only to the defendant’s acts.Amendment 835 (Supervised Release)Updated Chapters Five and Seven to emphasize individualized assessments, court authority to reassess post-release, and the rehabilitative purpose of supervised release. Violations of probation and supervised release are now treated separately, giving courts greater discretion, including alternatives to revocation or imprisonment.Amendment 836 (Simplification of Three-Step Process)Removed step two of the three-step sentencing process. Sentencing now uses a two-step approach: calculate the guideline range as a “starting point” and then determine the sentence considering 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). Most previous departures were deleted, except some (e.g., substantial assistance reductions) retained in modified form. Read more