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Sentencing Law and Policy
Substack musings on originalism and sentencing
Regularly readers are perhaps used to seeing irregular references here to some of my thinking about originalism and criminal justice topics. This week over at the Sentencing Matters Substack, I…
Criminal
Substack musings on originalism and sentencing
Regularly readers are perhaps used to seeing irregular references here to some of my thinking about originalism and criminal justice topics. This week over at the Sentencing Matters Substack, I…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A deep dive into sentencing patters for NY felony crime of falsifying business records
This week the New York Times published this lengthy article, headlined "Will Trump Get Jail Time? We Looked at Similar Cases to Find Out," while provides some statistical context regarding…
Criminal
“Pointing the Way… In the Wrong Direction: the <em>Model Penal Code: Sentencing</em>‘s Errant Approach to Restorative Justice and Its Role in Sentencing”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Lynn Branham now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:The Model Penal Code: Sentencing (MPCS) represents…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Pointing the Way… In the Wrong Direction: the <em>Model Penal Code: Sentencing</em>'s Errant Approach to Restorative Justice and Its Role in Sentencing"
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Lynn Branham now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The Model Penal Code: Sentencing (MPCS)…
Criminal
Supreme Court grants cert on 13 new matters, with a few of possible interest for sentencing fans
The US Supreme Court's new season, known as October Term 2024, officially gets started on Monday with oral arguments in two cases raising technical procedural issues. But, for SCOTUS watchers,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Supreme Court grants cert on 13 new matters, with a few of possible interest for sentencing fans
The US Supreme Court's new season, known as October Term 2024, officially gets started on Monday with oral arguments in two cases raising technical procedural issues. But, for SCOTUS watchers,…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
PA Supreme Court: Sentencing Court May Not Consider Arrests That Did Not Result in Conviction
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Berry, overturning a long line of Superior Court precedent and holding that…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Kim Kardashian advocates reconsidering Menendez brothers' LWOP sentences just as Los Angeles DA begins to do so
As reported in this new NBC News piece, "Prosecutors in California are reviewing the convictions of the Menendez brothers, who were found guilty in the 1989 killing of their parents,…
Criminal
Yet another wild (and wildlife) animal crime leads to notable federal sentencing
In recent weeks, I have noticed and blogged about a number of notable recent sentencing stories involving aninals (see links to prior posts below). This local story out of Montana,…