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19 Oct 2015, 7:46 am by Bill Otis
  In its current form, this sweeping sentencing bill reduces too many mandatory minimum sentences, would result the early release thousands of violent criminals, and could make our streets far more dangerous. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 12:10 pm by Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon
The idea behind adding mandatory minimum prison sentences is that legislators (the people who make the laws) do not trust judges (the people who sentence defendants according to the laws) to order proper sentences in what they consider the more serious cases. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 1:32 pm
long white-collar sentence The loss-culpability connection (or disconnect) in white-collar sentencing Latest FSR issue focused on white-collar sentencing [read post]
14 May 2012, 10:01 am by azatty
Criminal sentencing and we make strange bedfellows. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 8:06 am by Kent Scheidegger
  In that system, the jury enters the verdict of guilt of first-degree murder and makes a recommendation on sentence, but the trial judge makes the final decision on sentence and makes the essential finding that at least one "aggravating circumstance" exists.The Florida Supreme Court added a gloss that the judge's "override" would, in practice, only work in one direction. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 7:23 pm by Jeffrey Brown
" Lastly, it is unreasonable due to the disparities that exist with sentences in similar cases. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 8:53 am by Sami Azhari
This is a summary of prison sentencing for felony crimes in Illinois courts. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 8:25 am
Lakesha Haynie, twenty-nine, has received a ten year suspended sentence after pleading guilty, at the advice of her Maryland criminal attorney, to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her one-month-old son, Rajahnthon. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 5:42 am
Via Information Week comes this interesting item: A Massachusetts man was sentenced in Florida this week for hacking into the Accurint public-records database owned by LexisNexis. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 10:42 am by Kent Scheidegger
Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this story on a bill to make changes in Georgia sentencing law. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 5:56 am by Bill Otis
In my view, the battle over federal sentencing "reform" for this session of Congress has ended in victory for those of us wanting to preserve the gains the county has made in suppressing crime.But since almost nothing gets permanently settled in this town, my adversaries will be back. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 6:30 am by John O'Sullivan
This year Stephen Harper’s government announced its intention to introduce legislation that will make a life sentence mean a sentence for life. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 12:59 pm by Xi Lucy Shi
Schellenberg has 10 days from the second day of receiving the judgment to appeal the sentence. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 6:36 am by Elizabeth Lowman
 The crime has a maximum sentence of five years in prison, three years of probation and a fine of $250,000. [read post]
20 Aug 2024, 5:02 pm by Hanlon Law, PA
However, the court agreed with the defendant on the three sentencing issues. [read post]