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Sentencing
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Sentencing Law and Policy
USSC’s Latest Annual Report
Main June 17, 2004USSC's Latest Annual ReportThe U.S. Sentencing Commission has just released its 2002 Annual Report, which presents an overview of major Commission activities and accomplishments for fiscal year…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Mandatories in Arizona
Main June 7, 2004Mandatories in ArizonaThe non-profit group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, which was founded in 1991 to challenge inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws, has recently…
Sentencing Law and Policy
PROTECT Act Caselaw
Main June 3, 2004PROTECT Act CaselawBecause there have been a host of interesting and important cases interpreting and commenting upon the provisions of the PROTECT Act, it would be helpful…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The work of the ABA Kennedy Commission
Main May 31, 2004The work of the ABA Kennedy CommissionU.S Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy made headlines with this speech to the ABA in August 2003 about the need for…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Miller on the Distribution of Sentencing Authority
Main May 18, 2004Miller on the Distribution of Sentencing AuthorityProfessor Marc Miller has posted on SSRN the draft of his forthcoming artice in the Stanford Law Review about the allocation…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Jury Sentencing
Main May 17, 2004Jury SentencingProfessors Nancy King and Rosevelt Noble have posted this terrifically interesting study of felony jury sentencing on SSRN. Here's the text of their abstract:Jury sentencing in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New Report on Lifers
Main May 17, 2004New Report on LifersThe Sentencing Project has released a new report, The Meaning of “Life”: Long Prison Sentences in Context, which finds that 127,000 persons -- one…
Supreme Court Update
Blakely v. Washington (02-1632), Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court (03-5554), Yarborough v. Gentry (02-1597)
Yesterday, the Court granted cert in two cases and issued a brief per curiam opinion summarily reversing the 9th Circuit. For those of you keeping score in the contest to…