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20 Jan 2010, 10:28 am by johntfloyd
Court Describes Federal Sentencing Disparities as “A Picture of Injustice” By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In 1984 the United States Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act (“SRA”), and as part of the Act, Congress created the United States Sentencing Commission (“Commission”) to “establish sentencing policies and practices for the Federal… [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 11:30 am
Comments can also be e-mailed to the Commission (publicaffairs@ussc.gov )Federal RegisterCommission's "Reader Friendly" version [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 7:13 am
Sentencing Commission have heard from federal judges seeking reduced sentences for a group of defendants one would think unlikely to get sympathy from the bench: possessors of child pornography.From New York to Chicago, and recently in Denver, federal judges [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 10:00 pm
In this Essay, researchers at the United States Sentencing Commission respond to criticisms by Sonja Starr and Marit Rehavi, published in the Yale Law Journal, of the Commission’s past analyses of demographic differences in federal sentences. [read post]
The United States Sentencing Commission just finished an extensive study on the effects of Mandatory Minimum sentences in federal sentencing which it has just sent to the U.S. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 1:34 pm by John Floyd
      The post Peer to Peer Federal Sentencing Enhancement appeared first on . [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 11:44 pm
But the Sentencing Commission heard much more and written testimony from presenters who submitted it is available here, linked under the name of the presenter. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 12:51 pm
The US Sentencing Commission has some new post-Kimbrough/Gall sentencing data now up on its website. [read post]
5 Jul 2008, 1:16 pm
  It says the laws can be reduced from 30,211 words to 14,595, a 52 percent cut, without losing any meaning.I would be interested to know if any other state sentencing commissions are doing work like this on state criminal code improvement, and eager to vote for any federal candidate about making code revisions a key part of the US Sentencing Commission's modern mandate. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 11:18 am by Robinson Law, PLLC
Under mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, the defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Count 3, which would serve consecutively with a 46-57 month sentence that was imposed for Counts 1 and 2. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 2:54 pm
I am pleased to discover and report that the US Sentencing Commission has used the holiday season to produce two lovely new (and very reader-friendly) documents about federal sentencing realities. [read post]
30 May 2015, 10:27 am by John Floyd
Sentencing Commission voted to amend economic crime guidelines and to change the drug quantity table to account for the rescheduling […] [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 6:34 am
 The United States Sentencing Commission was set up by Congress. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 10:27 am by Robert Hambrick
 Avoiding Jail is Justice's GoalFor the most part the federal judges and prosecutors in the Middle District of Florida have shown very little inclination to give downward levels at sentencing on what the Federal Sentencing Commission or Congress may do in the future. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 12:50 am
From the United States Sentencing Commission: This manual contains the federal sentencing guidelines and policy statements effective November 1, 2006. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 11:22 am
As detailed in this report about the US Sentencing Commission regional hearing in New York this week, a number of federal judges are urging  the USSC to work on big, structural sentencing reform. [read post]