The title of this post is the title of a remarkable 280-page report produced by Alison Siegler and the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
Here is the start of its executive summary: Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court held that people charged with federal crimes should only rarely be locked in [...]
Last month, as blogged here, US District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to a (within guideline) prison term of 135 months. Today brought
sentencing for former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, and this TechCrunch account provides these highlights of the process and outcome: The former COO of [...]
From the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago, via NACDL's news update: In Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis,
the Clinic finds that federal judges routinely violate the very bail laws... [...]
From the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, via NACDL's news update: A report released by the Center on Privacy & Technology evaluates the reliability of face
recognition as it is used by police in the United States.... [...]
The title of this post is the title of this notable new issue brief that was produced by folks with the Addiction & Public Policy Initiative of the O’Neill Institute for
National and Global Health Law (and, full disclosure, that was supported by funding from the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center). Here is the starting text of the [...]
Federico Picinali (London School of Economics - Law School) has posted an abstract of Justice In-Between. A Study of Intermediate Criminal Verdicts (Oxford Monographs on Criminal
Law and Justice, OUP 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Book Abstract: Justice... [...]
From Reason, via NACDL's news update: A previous Wired report last year found 45 federal criminal cases citing the warrant, which required Google to provide the FBI with data
on devices using its location services inside a set geographic area—in... [...]
As detailed in this Washington Post piece, headlined "Prosecutors urged to more aggressively seize funds owed to crime victims," there is a notable new memo from the US Deputy
Attorney General Lisa Monaco. Here are details and context from the press piece: A new Justice Department memo issued Monday seeks to address criticism that the [...]
Last year in posts here and here, I spotlighted a significant Ninth Circuit ruling in US v. Lopez, No. 19-50305 (9th Cir. May 21, 2021) (available here), which interpreted
the FIRST-STEP-amended statutory safety valve to enable more federal drug defendants to benefit from its authorization for below mandatory-minimum sentences. But, [...]
I have not blogged much lately about the EQUAL Act to reform federal crack cocaine sentencing because, as detailed in posts here and here from the first half of 2022, it seems
some key Republican Senators oppose its passage and some key Democratic Senators seem unwilling to try to navigate the politics needed to get the bill to the desk [...]
