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Sentencing
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Sentencing Law and Policy
"The Relevance of State Misconduct for Mitigating Individual Punishment"
The title of this post is the title of this book chapter authored by Thom Brooks now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: This chapter is focused on the…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Takes on Armed Criminal Career Act and the Sixth Amendment
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Christopher Sakauye, Monika Harris, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Heming Xu, Dykema
In Erlinger v. United States, the Supreme Court addresses whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were…
Criminal
“The Relevance of State Misconduct for Mitigating Individual Punishment”
The title of this post is the title of this book chapter authored by Thom Brooks now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:This chapter is focused on the possible…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Unpunishment Purposes"
The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN authored by Meredith Esser. Here is its abstract: Sentencing scholarship often begins by exploring…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Another call for papers: <em>Federal Sentencing Reporter</em> issue on "<em>Booker</em> at 20"
In this prior post last month, I set out the full call for papers for a forthcoming issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter in which we plans to note (and celebrate?…
Criminal
“The Relative Severity of Criminal Sentences in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Breach Cases”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Sam Merchant which now has an abstract available up on SSRN. I typically will not link…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"A Randomization-based Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Pressure on Judges' Sentencing Decisions"
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Benjamin Lu and available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: Until recently, studies have consistently found…
Other
“A Randomization-based Analysis of the Effects of Electoral Pressure on Judges’ Sentencing Decisions”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Benjamin Lu and available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Until recently, studies have consistently found that…
Administrative and Regulatory
US Sentencing Commission votes to promulgate guideline amendment to limit use of acquitted conduct in guideline calculations
At a public meeting this afternoon, the US Sentencing Commission voted to promulgate a number of notable new guideline amendments, including perhaps most notably an amendment to preclude the consideration…
Criminal
“Rust” movie armorer convicted of manslaughter in New Mexico gets maximum prison term of 18 months in state prison
I asked in this post last month what folks thought would be the proper state sentence for the "Rust" movie armorer who was convicted of manslaughter in New Mexico. This…