Showing posts with label sentencing guidelines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentencing guidelines. Show all posts
Monday, November 14, 2011

Monday morning

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The NY Times explains how discovery and sentencing are broken in the criminal justice system. But this is old news, no? On Brady: The cur...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Justice Alito doesn't like the First Amendment

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He was the lone dissenter in the crush video case . And now he is the lone dissenter in the funeral protester case : The Supreme Court ruled...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

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Well maybe, if that tree is DOJ ... Here's DOJ saying the fraud guidelines need to be updated (from Main Justice). Federal judges were ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Why aren't more judges speaking out against the guidelines?

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Here's an article about Judge John Gleeson's recent response to DOJ's criticism of fraud sentences: A federal judge in Brookl...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Federal Sentencing Guidelines under attack by...

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... Lindsay Lohan .  She tweeted the following: It is clearly stated in Article 5 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights that...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"You make this sound like a fraud case. This isn't Bernie Madoff."

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That was Judge Kenneth Ryskamp last week on the Lin Gosman case, in which the judge sentenced Gosman to probation even though the guideli...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Are Sentences for Possession of Child Porn Too High?

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Yes, according to some district judges testifying before the Sentencing Commission. From the National Law Journal : Judges testifying befor...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Written Testimony

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For those that are interested, here is my written testimony to the Sentencing Commission.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sentencing Commission testimony

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I had the pleasure today to testify before the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding the 25 year anniversary of the Sentencing Reform Act. H...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

"If there is a verdict for her and she is ordered to be released, how can the verdict be changed so suddenly!!!!!!!!!"

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That was the defendant's mom after Judge Cohn sentenced Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan to 29 months a week after sentencing her to credit ti...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Huge sentencing day...

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Criminal law practitioners have quite a bit of reading today as the Supreme Court decided two mammoth cases -- Gall v. United States and K...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Fred Grimm on the Sentencing Guidelines

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I very rarely agree with Fred Grimm, but today he criticizes the Sentencing Guidelines , and I couldn't agree more. Grimm says: A drama ...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Thoughts on Scooter

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President Bush's commutation of Scooter isn't that surprising. But his comments about why he commuted the sentence are: [C] ritic...
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