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Prosecution
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Operation Streamline: Ten Years of Criminalizing Immigrants
Immigration Impact reminds us of the impacts of a major U.S. immigration development over the last decade. For the last 10 years, in federal courts across the Southwest border, the federal government…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What should be the minimum age for charging a juve with murder?
Main November 10, 2015What should be the minimum age for charging a juve with murder?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this depressing local article, headlined…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal judge decides (finally!) that Congress has limited DOJ prosecution of state-legal marijuana businesses
Main October 20, 2015Federal judge decides (finally!) that Congress has limited DOJ prosecution of state-legal marijuana businessesAs regular readers may recall, Section 538 of a spending bill passed late last…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Could local DA elections be a critical means to fighting mass incarceration?
Main October 13, 2015Could local DA elections be a critical means to fighting mass incarceration?Lots of sophisticated analyses of the roots and causes of modern mass incarceration, especially the empirical…
Food Safety News
Last Two PCA Sentences Are In: Kilgore Gets 6 Years; Lightsey, 3
By Dan Flynn
The final two sentences have been handed down in the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) criminal case. Former plant managers Samuel Lightsey and Daniel Kilgore were sentenced on Thursday, Oct.…
Business Risk Management Blog
Explosive changes in white collar prosecutions coming?
DOJ “Yates Memo” and release of 20-year study of white collar prosecutions suggest major changes in the way white collar crime is prosecuted and defended. Two separate news items, each…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New Justice Department sound and fury about white-collar prosecutions signifying….?
Main September 10, 2015New Justice Department sound and fury about white-collar prosecutions signifying....?The interrupted question in the title of this post is my first-cut reaction and uncertainty in response to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Charging on the Margin”
Main September 1, 2015"Charging on the Margin"The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper discussing prosecutorial practices and collteral consequences autored by Paul Crane now…
Corporate Governance & Internal Investigations Advisor
Federal White Collar Crime Prosecutions at 20-Year Low
Written by Peter Torncello Federal prosecutions of white-collar crime have fallen to a 20-year low, researchers at Syracuse University, analyzing Justice Department documents, have concluded. Researchers found the federal government…
The Right Coast
Gabriel Schoenfeld: Hillary Clinton s email woes will worsen – NY Daily News
The Obama Justice Department has been making vigorous use of this and related statutes that punish the mishandling of government secrets, prosecuting leakers of classified information in the fiercest crackdown…