The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN and authored by Tobie Smith. Here is its abstract: The Supreme Court has revitalized the jury’s
role in criminal sentencing over the past quarter century, reaffirming that the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury extends to factfinding that increases the punishment [...]
This press piece, headlined "US Prosecutors Challenge 'Unusually Lenient' Sentence in HashFlare Mining Fraud," reports that federal prosecutors were quick to appeal this notable
federal sentencing decision in a cryptocurrency fraud handed down this week. Here is a bit of the story from the press piece: Federal prosecutors have moved to [...]
The Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in the eleventh-annual competition
recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. [...]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently announced that the functions of the intelligence community’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) would be reduced
and absorbed into other parts of the U.S. intelligence community. In doing so, Gabbard has dismantled the last remaining U.S. [...]
As the diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine War accelerates following President Donald Trump’s summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s consultations with Trump and European leaders in Washington, so too has talk of a European “reassurance force” for Ukraine. [...]
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