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A long round-up of sentencing news and commentary before a long weekend
I hope to be mostly off-line for most of the long weekend, and so I will lean into being away by doing a lengthy round-up of various pieces that caught…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
Attorney Goldstein Wins Re-Sentencing on Appeal for Client Who Received 35 Years for Drugs
Criminal Appeals Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire Philadelphia criminal defense attorney Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire recently won a new sentencing hearing for a client who received 17.5 - 35 years’…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Catching up, yet again, with a big bunch of relisted acquitted conduct petitions pending before SCOTUS
Over at SCOTUSblog, John Elwood has his latest "Relist Watch" posting, and this new post is titled "Acquitted-conduct sentencing returns." As regular readers know, I have been following a number of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Extended discussion of issues surrounding upcoming federal sentencing of Oath Keepers
Over at Lawfare, Roger Parloff has this remarkable new piece titled "Should Nine Oath Keepers Receive Terror-Enhanced Sentences?". This lengthy piece examines an array of intricate sentencing issues and it…
Criminal
Extended discussion of issues surrounding upcoming federal sentencing of Oath Keepers
Over at Lawfare, Roger Parloff has this remarkable new piece titled "Should Nine Oath Keepers Receive Terror-Enhanced Sentences?". This lengthy piece examines an array of intricate sentencing issues and it…
Criminal
Minnesota through new legislation becomes 28th state to prohibit juve LWOP
Via email from The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, I learned this afternoon that "Minnesota has officially become the 28th state to ban juvenile life without parole as…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable sentencing research in recent special issue of "Law and Human Behavior"
I just tripped across the February 2023 issue of the journal "Law and Human Behavior," which is labeled as "Special Issue: Racial Justice in the Criminal Justice and Legal Systems." …
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots of sentencing coverage as part of Season 1 of "Drugs on the Docket" podcast
I am extremely pleased to highlight that the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at The Ohio State University has now officially launched Season One of a new podcast, "Drugs on…
Criminal
Big spread in sentencing recommendations for Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy
As reported in this Washington Post piece, lawyers for "Stewart Rhodes urged a judge to sentence him to far less than the 25-year prison term sought by federal prosecutors for…
On Point
Defense win: Post-sentencing vacatur of prior OWIs may constitute a new factor justifying sentence modification
By Wisconsin State Public Defender
State v. James J. Socha, 2021AP1083-CR & 2021AP2116-CR, District 1, 4/25/23 (not recommended for publication); case activity (including briefs): 2021AP1083-CR; 2021AP2116-CR The fact that some of Socha’s prior OWI offenses…