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10 Jun 2014, 5:17 pm by Bill Otis
United States, in which the Supreme Court, 5-4, walked past the Savings Statute, 1 USC 109, to find that the Fair Sentencing Act applied retroactively for the benefit of those convicted on or after the day it was signed into law, regardless of its effective date.That degree of retroactivity, bad as it was, pales by comparison to the essentially time-unlimited retroactivity the Justice Department endorsed today for lighter drug penalties across the board.What happens when… [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 1:12 pm by Steve Hall
I came to the United States as a young man to try to make a better life for myself, in search of American dream. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 5:29 am
Aug 1, 2007)(New Mexico).Appeal of unlawful reentry to United States after deportation following conviction for commission of aggravated felony in violation of 8 U.S.C. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 1:09 pm
" Jacox, a former sailor in the United States Navy, joined to the fish and wildlife commission and graduated in 2006. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 1:34 pm by John Floyd
  On April 8, 2019, the Fifth Circuit in United States v. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 12:38 pm by Robert Chesney
The en banc decision of the Court of Military Commission Review (“CMCR”) in United States v. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 9:20 pm by Steve Vladeck
You may not even care about the merits of Al-Nashiri's claim (whether, at the time of the Cole bombing in October 2000, the United States was already involved in an "armed conflict" under the laws of war with al Qaeda, which is what the MCA itself requires in order for the commissions to have jurisdiction). [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 11:54 am by Michael Lowe
See United States Sentencing Commission, Mandatory Minimum Penalties for Drug Offenses in the Federal Criminal Justice System 8, 26, 57 (Oct. 2017), and our prior discussion in Mandatory Minimum Penalties in Federal Sentencing. [read post]
15 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
It seems the United States may have been eavesdropping on private conversations between al Nashiri and his lawyers, and could not assure anyone that the practice had ended. [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 10:13 am by Andrew Chongseh Kim
My latest article reveals significant conceptual and statistical errors in the canonical methodology that cause most other studies, including those by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), to greatly underestimate the trial penalty. [read post]
1 Jan 2023, 12:07 pm by Douglas A. Berman
"  Here is an excerpt from the Forbes piece: I recently spoke to Stephen Sady, Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon about a paper he wrote that was critical of the BOP but stated that the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) could encourage the BOP to balance long guideline sentences by implementing ameliorative statutes that reduce actual prison time. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 9:02 am
Former Auditor Sentenced For Submitting Fraudulently Backdated Documents To The Securities And Exchange Commission (DOJ Release)https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-auditor-sentenced-submitting-fraudulently-backdated-documents-securities-andFormer auditor and owner of a registered public accounting firm, Terry Johnson, pled guilty to submitting falsely backdated documents to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission… [read post]