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2 Oct 2020, 2:50 am by Jon Katz
Virginia sentencing should not be by underinformed jurors, let alone by jurors at all, says Fairfax criminal lawyer Virginia sentencing starts with a jury recommendation if the jury convicted. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 11:31 am
I noted earlier this week that Japan was conducting  its first criminal jury trial in decades and that its new jury system was to include sentencing responsibilities. [read post]
18 May 2015, 1:28 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
The Origins, Evolution and Puzzling Irrelevance of Jury Recommendations in Second-Degree Murder Sentencing Micah B. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 8:04 am by Lyle Denniston
   This case, he added, “is a particularly appealing case, because not only did no jury convict these defendants of the offense the sentencing judge thought them guilty of, but a jury acquitted them of that offense. [read post]
Sayfullo Saipov, responsible for the death of eight people in an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack, was sentenced to life in prison Monday after a New York jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on his sentence. [read post]
25 Feb 2017, 4:15 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
AL.com: AL Senate passes bill to give juries final say on death sentences The Alabama Senate today overwhelmingly approved a bill that would give juries the final say on whether someone convicted of a capital crime is sentenced to life in prison or death. [read post]
The post Ohio Supreme Court rules jury must find ‘force’ to increase rape sentence appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 1:42 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
MaryAnn Grover (University of Richmond - School of Law) has posted Jury Sentencing in the United States: The Antithesis of the Rule of Law (40 Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice 23, 2019) on SSRN. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 2:54 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Best has posted Elements, Sentencing Factors, and the Right to a Jury Trial: An Analysis of Legislative Power and its Limits (Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 29, 2011) on SSRN. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 8:03 am
"The majority of the people on that jury wanted the death penalty," Jones said. [read post]
15 Oct 2016, 12:14 pm by Ram Eachambadi
The Florida Supreme Court [official website] on Friday held [opinion, PDF] that a trial court may not impose the death penalty unless the jury's recommended sentence of death is unanimous. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 6:51 am
[JURIST] A US military jury on Wednesday recommended a 14-year sentence for Sudanese Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi [DOD materials; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 6:16 pm
This local article, headlined "Jury gives Jessop 10 years for sexual assault," reports on the sentencing outcome in a high-profile sexual offense prosecuion. [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 6:10 am by Rick Davis & Associates
Texas, however, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas held that this general rule does not apply when the written judgment includes a sentence imposed by a jury. [read post]
27 Jul 2008, 9:48 pm
Chip Shields, a state rep. from Oregon raises the issue of whether a jury should be given information about the possible sentence facing the accused. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 5:45 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Kolar (University of Oklahoma College of Law) has posted 'Finding' a Way to Complete the Ring of Capital Jury Sentencing (95 Denv. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm
A hearing on sentencing was held on Monday, and yesterday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury deliberated for six hours before imposing a sentence of ten years in prison and an $8000 fine on Jessop. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 12:08 pm by Lyle Denniston
Hurst’s public-defender lawyers asked the Court to rule on two broad questions: one about the jury’s role when an accused individual claims a mental disability, and one about the jury’s role in the death-sentencing process, including an issue of whether its verdict must be unanimous. [read post]