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11 Mar 2017, 3:47 pm by Michael Smolensky
A last minute adjournment of a sentencing took place in Hudson County Superior Court this week, per nj dot com. [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]
28 Sep 2009, 3:25 pm
In Malaysia, apparently a controversial sentence of a Muslim woman for drinking alcohol is back on track. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 1:47 pm
U.S. represents a watershed in the history of drug sentencing. [read post]
Biden said he commuted the sentences because he saw them as disproportionately long for the sentences they would have received today given the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and the First Step Act of 2018. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 2:03 pm by John Floyd
Sentencing Guidelines authorizes a steep increase in a defendant’s offense level and an automatic increase in his criminal history category if […] [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 4:05 pm by Lawrence Solum
  Here is the abstract: This research, using interviews with probation officers in the United States (N = 151) and a constant comparative method for analysis, draws from the focal concerns framework to qualitatively model a process by which probation officers use a defendant’s remorse to attribute focal concerns in order to guide their sentencing recommendations in pre-sentencing reports. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 7:59 am by Lyle Denniston
A case on life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder, set for review by the Supreme Court, will now be dismissed, under an agreement filed with the Justices on Monday. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 3:04 pm by Jamie Markham
Wherever we turn out to be in the life cycle of Structured Sentencing, it’s fair to say that much of what we know about it (and many other sentencing-related topics), we know better thanks to Judge Spainhour’s Commission. [read post]
28 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm by Hanlon Law, PA
The defendant received consecutive life sentences for the robbery charges and a concurrent life sentence for the burglary conviction. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 3:56 pm by Eugene Volokh
Why can't a conjunction serve as a transition that logically connects two consecutive sentences? [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 12:46 pm
In Oregon, voters approved two competing initiatives that will increase sentences and prison populations, while in California, a multi-million dollar campaign to dramatically reform sentencing went down in the face of opposition from prison guards and politicians, and another initiative that will see longer sentences and more prisoners was approved by voters. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 1:51 pm by Cassandra Maas
Atambaev was sentenced to imprisonment for 11 years, and he was also sentenced to be deprived of all state awards and ranks. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 12:57 pm by Michael Heise
In The Failure of the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines, Jennifer Arlen (NYU) explores the comparatively underdeveloped topic of sentencing guidelines' efficacy in the white-collar and corporate criminal context. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 7:44 am by Zoe Gujral
He was sentenced to life in prison for bribery and 16 years in prison for regulatory violations. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 9:06 am by Hanlon Law, PA
The sentencing scoresheet indicated  1132.80 sentencing points, with the lowest sentence being 828 months in prison. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 9:14 am by Lindsay Offutt
His original sentencing date was set for this week, until US District Judge TS Ellis III delayed sentencing last week due to Manafort’s pending trial in the District of Columbia. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 5:19 am
Via Sentencing Law and Policy I discover that the US Sentencing Commission will be meeting in Austin this week. [read post]
4 May 2008, 10:27 am
District Judge John Coughenour cited the victim's age in sentencing Sean Hart to a term that is almost three times longer than federal guidelines.Coughenour also sentenced a second man -- who had paid for the girl to be flown to Seattle and had turned her over to the first defendant -- to 30 months in prison, another upward departure from the guidelines. [read post]