Topic
Plea Bargaining
754 published works
Sentencing Law and Policy
Is it okay to rat out rats?
Main May 22, 2007Is it okay to rat out rats?In today's New York Times, Adam Liptak has this intriguing article about the website "Who's a Rat." The website describes itself…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Noticing the disappearing jury trial
Main April 29, 2007Noticing the disappearing jury trialAdam Liptak's "Sidebar" column in Monday's New York Times is entitled "Cases Keep Flowing in, but the Jury Pool Is Idle." As this…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New article on “Plea Bargaining and Procedural Justice”
Main April 26, 2007New article on "Plea Bargaining and Procedural Justice"Professor Michael O'Hear has this interesting looking new article posted on on SSRN, which is "Plea Bargaining and Procedural Justice."…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Thoughful discussion of appeal waivers by Third Circuit
Main April 26, 2007Thoughful discussion of appeal waivers by Third CircuitAs discussed here, Nancy J. King and Michael O'Neill have documented that appeal waivers in federal plea agreements tend to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A view from the California sentencing trenches
Main April 5, 2007A view from the California sentencing trenchesFollowing my request for information from folks working in California about the implementation and application of SB 40 (basics here and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Record sentence (with a loophole) for tax cheat
Main March 28, 2007Record sentence (with a loophole) for tax cheatThanks to this post at TaxProf, I noticed this Washington Post article reporting on a record (and timely) sentence in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Plea Bargaining: Deal or No Deal
Main March 1, 2007Plea Bargaining: Deal or No DealOn the CrimProf listserve this morning, Wayne State Prof. David Moran had this great comment about plea bargaining that he graciously allowed…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Cooperation Nets Probation
By Ellen Podgor
In yet another example of the wide disparity between those who went to trial and those who cooperated and plead guilty in Enron related cases, CNN Money reports that "two…
Sentencing Law and Policy
California chaos afterCunningham?
Main January 24, 2007California chaos after Cunningham?The Supreme Court's Cunningham decision is less than 48 hours old (buzz indexed here), and I have already received e-mail suggesting the fall-out in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Another effect of extreme mandatory sentencing laws
Main January 15, 2007Another effect of extreme mandatory sentencing lawsA reader sent me this disconcerting story from ABC News discussing a recent case in which a 16-year-old Phoenix boy was…