The title of this post is the title of this essay authored by Barry Latzer available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: A recent report on reincarceration by the Council of State Governments Justice ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Thompson v. US, which has the potential to be a major white-collar criminal case because it could narow (or expand) how federal criminal law defines a ...
The day after Donald Trump was elected to serve a second term in the Oval Office, I asked in this post "How might Prez-Elect Trump operationalize his promise to pardon January 6 defendants?". Though a ...
The title of this post is the title of this recent New York Law Journal essay by Paul Shechtman. The piece merits a full read, as it highlights recent developments on acquitted conduct sentencing and ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hewitt (et al.) v. U.S. to consider this formal question: "Whether the First Step Act’s sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally ...
When the US Sentencing Commission's promulgated a set of proposed guideline amendments last month (details here), it also indicated in a press release that more proposed amendments might be in the ...
I have just finished listening to today's hearing as part of the state court sentencing in Trump v. New York, at the end of which he received the expected sentence of "unconditional discharge." The ...
The title of this post is the title of this new paper now available via SSRN authored by Olwyn Conway. Here is its abstract: Restorative justice is a means of responding to harm — including criminal ...
Anyone and everyone following Second Amendment litigation since the Supreme Court's landmark Bruen ruling knows that it is not a question of whether, but just a matter of when, the Justices will take ...
As reported in this notable new NBC News piece, "[t]wo prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them ...
The day after Donald Trump was elected to serve a second term in the Oval Office, I asked in this post "How might Prez-Elect Trump operationalize his promise to pardon January 6 defendants?". Perhaps ...
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by William Berry III now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The United States Supreme Court has applied the Eighth Amendment in ...
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