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Prosecution
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Texas justice?: how should deal cut by special prosecutors to end felony charges against Texas AG be described?
I have not followed closely any of the legal cases and dramas surrounding Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but the news of a deal to end long-running state criminal charges…
Simple Justice
Short Take: Six Fewer Counts
In pretty much every news story involving a prosecution, they include the max sentence. If the statute provides for a sentence of probation to 20 years, it will say “the…
McGeorge Community Stories
Alumna named one of the five best prosecutors in America
[caption id="attachment_2697" align="alignleft" width="220"] Summer Stephan, '86, leads the second-largest DA’s Office in California, and the fifth-largest in the United States.[/caption] District Attorney Summer Stephan, '86, has devoted her life…
Prosecution First Blog
Prosecution Pointer 415
By Publisher
The USPTO maintains an events webpage listing current events in all the USPTO locations. A link to the webpage can be found here. Read more
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Lessons from the Fani Willis Disqualification Hearing in Fulton County, Georgia
Over the past few weeks, Judge Scott McAfee has presided over a hearing in which former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis…
The Right Coast
Fani Willis Knows When a Trial Is a Show Trial – WSJ
If the worst allegations are true, credit Fani Willis at least with understanding in her own mind what her case, and all the cases against Donald Trump, are really about.In…
Criminal
Recapping the state of Jan 6 riot prosecutions and sentences at three-year mark
The New York Times gets a slight jump on the three-year anniversary of the Jan 6 riot with this new piece headlined, "The Jan. 6 Riot Inquiry So Far: Three…
Simple Justice
Dragging The Line: Can Appeals Save Trump?
There was some small degree of controversy about whether a sitting president could be prosecuted, as the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel issued a memorandum that a president…
Criminal
New white-paper on “Advancing the Use of Data in Prosecution: What We Measure Matters”
Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) this week released this new white paper focused on data collection by prosecutor offices. Three FJP contributors to the white paper also authored this new…
Criminal
“Defense Lawyering in the Progressive Prosecution Era”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Jenny Roberts now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:The movement to elect so-called progressive prosecutors…