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24 Sep 2009, 10:37 am
The youngest member of a ring of brokers at Prudential Securities Inc. who fraudulently traded mutual funds for millions of dollars in commissions was spared a possible 105-year prison sentence yesterday, ordered instead by a federal judge to serve two months in a halfway house and two years of probation. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 10:40 am
Sentencing Commission, Report to Congress: Cocaine & Federal Sentencing Policy (2007)] [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 1:15 pm
An important debate is brewing among two distinguished federal district judges over whether the federal Sentencing Guidelines for drug dealing are unduly harsh. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 10:58 am by Staff Writer
A Brief History of Sentencing Congress formed an agency entitled the United States Sentencing Commission in 1984. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 11:19 am by Mary B. McCord
  The sentences that have been imposed by Article III courts have been more predictable and substantial than those imposed by military commissions. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 8:01 am by David Oscar Markus
  From FD.org: The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously today to prohibit conduct for which a person was acquitted in federal court from being used in calculating a sentence range under the federal guidelines (USSC press release available here). [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 5:03 am by SHG
Fact: The majority of drug traffickers sentenced in federal court are not being sentenced pursuant to mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 7:15 am
Sentencing Commission that the 100-to-1 crack v. cocaine disparity may exaggerate the seriousness of crack crimes. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 3:33 pm
In creating a sentencing commission, we will join 21 states that have a body that conducts some form of sentencing policy review, plus Washington, D.C., and the federal government..... [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 6:32 pm
In delivering a sentence substantially below the 18- to 24-month recommendation in federal guidelines, Beistline cited the long delay between the commission of the crime and its prosecution by federal authorities, who didn't charge Masek until March. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 1:38 pm
I received this afternoon  yet another fascinating district court opinion concerning sentencing in a federal child porn downloading case. [read post]
26 Dec 2006, 5:23 am
Some recent related posts: How could and will this election impact federal sentencing policy? [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 9:36 am by Robert Hambrick
While parsing thru the new fiscal year report from the Federal Sentencing Commission, your favorite Clearwater Criminal Defense Attorney found a surprising statistic struggling to be set free among the gender based findings. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 9:18 am by Sarah M Donnelly
Today, the United States Sentencing Commission (“Commission”) is holding a public hearing to receive testimony from members of its Tribal Issues Advisory Group (TIAG) on their final report addressing federal sentencing issues relating to American Indian defendants and victims, and to offenses committed in Indian country. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 7:53 am
Sentencing Commission last month, Justice Department Officials indicated that the way we view incarceration on the whole needs to be reevaluated. [read post]