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Rounding up another set of notable headlines on all sort of sentencing-related topics
Catching up after a week mostly on the road, I noticed lots of headlines and stories that seemed worth flagging in a quicj round-up. So here goes:From the Free Press,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Rounding up another set of notable headlines on all sort of sentencing-related topics
Catching up after a week mostly on the road, I noticed lots of headlines and stories that seemed worth flagging in a quicj round-up. So here goes: From the Free…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Diddy's Lawyer May Ask for Home Confinement, Not Prison, to Provide Therapy"
The title of this post is the headline of this new TMZ report, which is interesting while not being especially surprising. Here are excertps: Diddy will probably be sentenced to…
Criminal
“Diddy’s Lawyer May Ask for Home Confinement, Not Prison, to Provide Therapy”
The title of this post is the headline of this new TMZ report, which is interesting while not being especially surprising. Here are excertps:Diddy will probably be sentenced to confinement…
Legal Profession Blog
Judge’s Research Requires Resentencing
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has remanded a murder conviction for resentencing before a different judge due to the trial judge's independent researchServil argues that the court abused its sentencing…
Criminal
US Sentencing Commission releases new compassionate release data and notes upcoming hearing and meeting
A busy summer continues for the US Sentencing Commission. A couple of weeks ago, as detailed here, the Commission conducted a "Public Hearing on Retroactivity" to "gather testimony from invited…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Sentencing Still Matters: Michael Tonry’s Framework for Treating Like Cases Alike and Different Cases Differently"
The title of this post is the title of this article authored by Rhys Hester in the June 2025 issue of the Criminal Law Forum. (As noted in this prior post, this…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Is the Defendant Mad or Bad? The Association Between Mental Health, Race and Sex in Sentencing in Federal Courts"
The title of this post is the title of this new article published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice and authored by Tracy Sohoni, Sylwia Piatkowska and Briana Paige. …
Criminal
Extended review of the Supreme Court’s criminal justice work in the Term just completed
Law360 has this lengthy new article providing a detail examination of the Supreme Court's rulings in an array of criminal cases during its October 2024 Term. The article's headline, "High…
Criminal
Feds seek “significant downward departure and <em>Booker</em> variance” in sentencing officer involved in Breonna Taylor case
As reported in this CNN piece, the "Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 -- when…