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Plea Bargaining
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Sentencing Law and Policy
A new sports anthem: Please pleas me
Main August 15, 2007A new sports anthem: Please pleas me The news reports today indicate that two high-profile defendants from the world of sports are working on pleas:This AP article…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Tenth Circuit finds undue judicial involvement in plea deal
Main August 12, 2007Tenth Circuit finds undue judicial involvement in plea dealI've just seen an interesting opinion released late Friday by the Tenth Circuit concerning plea practices. Here is the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Off to the NASC conference with fitting reading
Main August 5, 2007Off to the NASC conference with fitting readingToday has been spent getting myself together to head to Oklahoma for the 2007 Conference of the National Association of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Vick now having to play defense after co-defendant cooperates
Main July 31, 2007Vick now having to play defense after co-defendant cooperatesThough still only a few weeks since his indictment, the federal prosecution of Michael Vick and others on dog-fighting…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Debating the death penalty as bargaining chip
Main July 30, 2007Debating the death penalty as bargaining chipI have previously noted (such as in this post) that I think the biggest impact of having (or not having) the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More summer sentencing reading from SSRN
Main July 29, 2007More summer sentencing reading from SSRNHere are some recent pieces appearing on SSRN that sentencing fans may want to check out:Booker's Unnoticed Victim: The Importance of Providing…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A co-defendant running to the prosecutor faster than Michael Vick
Main July 29, 2007A co-defendant running to the prosecutor faster than Michael VickThis AP article and this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article details that one of Michael Vick's co-defendant appears poised to…
The Right Coast
Prosecutors with Absolute PowerMaimon Schwarzschild
Mark Steyn offers half a dozen reforms to improve the US justice system and rein in the stupendous powers of prosecutors - powers that are now all too easily abused:1)…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The dynamics of “fighting” a white-collar charge
Main July 26, 2007The dynamics of "fighting" a white-collar chargeToday's New York Law Journal has this piece, entitled "To Fight or Not to Fight?", that discusses the dynamics of plea…
Sentencing Law and Policy
DC Circuit finds district court wrongfully participated in plea negotiations
Main June 5, 2007DC Circuit finds district court wrongfully participated in plea negotiationsThe DC Circuit today in US v. Baker, No. 06-3115 (DC Cir. June 5, 2007) (available here), upset…