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24 Mar 2017, 11:09 am
Lauren Witten has posted Proportionality As a Moral Process: Reconceiving Judicial Discretion and Mandatory Minimum Penalties (Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2017) on SSRN. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 5:16 pm
Effective August 1, 2012, if you have a second, third or subsequent DUI or Physical Control conviction within 7 years and are facing some serious mandatory minimums in EHM (Electronic Home Monitoring, aka house arrest) you now have another option.... [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 6:36 am
The court sentenced him, as a subsequent offender, to twenty years’ imprisonment, with all but the mandatory minimum of ... [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 2:41 pm
Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of the Special Counsel, wants to abandon his guilty plea following a judge's ruling last week that the charge of lying to Congress carries a one-month mandatory minimum jail sentence. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 5:20 pm
United States 17-830 Issue: Whether the exclusion of testimony on the specific length of the mandatory minimum sentence faced by a cooperating witness violates a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to cross-examination. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 12:59 pm
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), a nonpartisan, non-profit organization working for sentencing reform has launched a new blog - SentenceSpeak. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 11:03 am
Catherine DiVita has posted 'Cracking' the Code: Interpreting Sentence Reduction Requirements in Favor of Eligibility for Crack Cocaine Offenders Who Avoided a Mandatory Minimum for Their Substantial Assistance to Authorities (Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 6:00 am
IRA's have special rules regulating when mandatory distributions must occur under different circumstances. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 am
From The Marshall Project, via NACDL's news-of-interest: Last month, President Biden quietly extended a policy that critics call a betrayal of his campaign promise to end mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 5:46 am
From rolling back harsh mandatory minimum sentences (at least 29 states have done so since 2000) to decreasing... [read post]
21 May 2013, 8:30 pm
Doug Berman at Sentencing Law & Policy discusses the implications of a Sixth Circuit case declaring that the reduced mandatory minimum crack sentences set out in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 must be applied even to those offenders sentenced... [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 1:09 pm
Beltran-Moreno, was appealed even though the sentences given were below the mandatory minimum. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 3:15 pm
There are a lot of advantages to pleading guilty, among them: the sentencing guidelines level will be lower under section 3E1.1 of the sentencing guidelines; a person can sometimes avoid a charge with a mandatory minimum; and the government will often offer some [...] [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 5:34 am
Here is the abstract: The Armed Career Criminal Act (the “ACCA”) provides a mandatory minimum... [read post]
5 May 2016, 9:34 pm
He called for Congress to reform unjust mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 1:00 pm
Criminal Procedure Invalid information; plain error Where the only effect of a defendant's raising the invalidity of the information would be to lower the mandatory minimum term of supervised release, the sentence is not plain error. [read post]
21 Jul 2005, 9:48 am
The Gang Prevention and Effective Deterrence Act of 2005 would impose mandatory minimum sentences, prosecute children in adult courts, and expand the number of death-eligible crimes. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 6:49 pm
Where's our legislation ending the crack disparity and eliminating some mandatory minimums? [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 8:05 am
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled to raise the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 6:57 am
The media is full of praise for the Senate Judiciary Committee which yesterday passed a sentencing reform bill addressing mandatory minimum sentencing laws on drug offenses. [read post]
