From The Washington Post, via NACDL's news update: Laws criminalizing adultery are on the books in a handful of other states but are rarely enforced. In most cases, they were
put on the books at a time when adultery was... [...]
From The Washington Post, via NACDL's news update: Laws criminalizing adultery are on the books in a handful of other states but are rarely enforced. In most cases, they were
put on the books at a time when adultery was... [...]
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Sheldon Evans now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The modern criminal punishment regime has failed
to deliver on its promise of public safety. For all of the resources expended and all of the human costs incurred, the ever-growing carceral state does not make [...]
This afternoon, the US Sentencing Commission sent out an email that flagged a bunch of notable new materials on the USSC's website. Data fans will be especially interested
in a lot of these new items, which I link below. But everyone should mark their calendars for April 10, 2024; the USSC has now created a key date though this Public [...]
Ian Marcus Amelkin and Nicholas Pugliese have posted The Delinquent Guidelines: Calling on the U.S. Sentencing Commission to Stop Counting Defendants’ Prior Offenses Committed
Before Age 18 (Harvard Law & Policy Review (forthcoming Spring 2024)) on SSRN. Here is the... [...]
This recent Bloomberg Law piece, headlined "Debevoise, DOJ Sentencing Reform Clash Could Hit Supreme Court," details how the Justice Department's legal opposition to one part
of the US Sentencing Commission's new sentence reduction guideline, Section 1B1.13, could be laying the groundwork on a legal issue that might work its way to the [...]
Josiah Rutledge has posted With Great (Writ) Power Comes Great (Writ) Responsibility: A Modified Teague Framework for State Courts (59 Criminal Law Bulletin 480 (2023)) on
SSRN. Here is the abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court’s many criminal procedure decisions are... [...]
Though we are still a few days from the high-profile sentencing of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, I have already seen some lengthy press pieces discussing the sentencing
filings and speculating about how US District Judge Lewis Kaplan with weigh competiting arguments. Here is a round up: From Business Insider, "FTX's victims may [...]
Issue summary is from ScotusBlog, which also links to papers: Wednesday Erlinger v. U.S.: Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt
to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were “committed on occasions different from... [...]
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Paper Downloads 1. Redistributing Justice Benjamin Levin and Kate Levine Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Date Posted: 28 Jan... [...]
The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Megan S. Wright, Cindy Cain and Shima Baradaran Baughman. Here is its abstract:
Despite the significant impact of prosecutorial discretion on criminal justice outcomes, there are very few large-scale studies of state and local prosecutor decision-making. [...]