particular sentence. and a particular crime. and the probation office s report, when a court sentences actually in most cases becomes the findings of fact of the court. so the probation office appears just like the prosecution and the defense, the probation office has written a report and they make a recommendation to the court based on their independent analysis related to the facts of a particular crime and defendant and sentence. understood. they give the court counsel. understood. however, they don t issue guidelines. they re not uniform. it is by its very nature a case by case inquiry. as up. the case goes to the judge. as i understand it, the probation reports are not public in all the cases that we re talking about here. i would love to see them if they