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Sentencing
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Criminal
Lots of sentencing pieces in latest issue of the <em>Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law</em>
I was pleased to see that the most recent issue of Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, which includes papers from a symposium last year covering sentencing topics, is now…
Regulatory Oversight
US AG Announces Increased Penalties for AI Crimes
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
In a recent speech at Oxford University, U.S. Deputy Attorney General (AG) Lisa Monaco announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will now seek stiffer penalties for crimes involving,…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried in lengthy memo request “a sentence that returns Sam promptly to a productive role in society”
For a number of reasons, I always find white-collar sentencings to be fasciniating, and the scheduled sentencing next month of Sam Bankman-Fried is already fitting that characterization. The latest development…
Criminal
“Supervising Sentencing”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Renagh O'Leary now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Community supervision agencies and officers do not…
Criminal
“The role of character-based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Ian Belton and Mandeep Dhami recently published in the latest issue of the Journal of Empirical…
Business and Commercial
Should a bounce in crypto markets mean a much lower federal sentence for Sam Bankman-Fried?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new CoinDesk article headlined "Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentence Might Be Lighter Than You'd Expect." Here are excerpts:Former FTX boss…
Technology and AI
Should AI be treated like a firearm for federal sentencing purposes?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by a speech given today by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco "on the Promise and Peril of AI." The full…
Criminal
“Principles of Prosecutor Lenience”
The title of thid post is the title of this new essay authored by Jeffrey Bellin now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Once “the Darth Vader of academic writing,”…
Criminal
No criminal law opinions from SCOTUS on day of oral argument over constitutional collateral consequences
Though many SCOTUS watchers are understandably focused on today's oral argument in Trump v. Anderson, I flagged earlier this week in this post that I was hoping the Pulsifer case…
Criminal
“Death Is Disparate”
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Jesse Cheng now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:The high stakes of capital punishment demand…