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Sentencing
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Criminal
US Attorney General Garland releases new federal charging guidelines that include instructions to treat crack like powder cocaine
I thought the increasing prospects for statutory sentencing reforms from Congress might be the big federal sentencing news of this week, but this new Washington Post piece suggests that even…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS grants cert. on two new criminal cases, including one involving a sentencing issue
The Supreme Court this afternoon granted cert on four new cases in this order. Two of the new cases to be argued in early 2023 are criminal cases, and here…
Criminal
SCOTUS grants cert. on two new criminal cases, including one involving a sentencing issue
The Supreme Court this afternoon granted cert on four new cases in this order. Two of the new cases to be argued in early 2023 are criminal cases, and here…
Business and Commercial
Federal judge imposes (within guideline) sentence of 155 months on former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani
Last month, as blogged here, US District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to a (within guideline) prison term of 135 months. Today brought sentencing for former Theranos…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal judge imposes (within guideline) sentence of 155 months on former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani
Last month, as blogged here, US District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to a (within guideline) prison term of 135 months. Today brought sentencing for former Theranos…
Criminal
En banc Eleventh Circuit now gives broad reading to FIRST-STEP-amended mandatory-minimum safety valve provision
Last year in posts here and here, I spotlighted a significant Ninth Circuit ruling in US v. Lopez, No. 19-50305 (9th Cir. May 21, 2021) (available here), which interpreted the FIRST-STEP-amended statutory…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Bureau of Justice Statistics releases "Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected Under the First Step Act, 2022"
Via email this morning, I learned of this 25-page report produced by DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics. This BJS webpage provides this discriptive overview and these "highlights": This is the…
Food Safety News
Parnell’s challenge to his prison sentence is now an appeal to the 11th Circuit
By Dan Flynn
Savannah attorney Amy Lee Copeland has filed a Notice of Appeal for Stewart Parnell's motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence under a federal habeas corpus action. Parnell's…
Law Times News
Ontario Court of Appeal allows sentence appeal for convicted sexual offender with cancer
Man charged with offences against stepdaughter spanning from 1995 to 2003
CrimProf Blog
Freiberg & Roberts on Sentencing Commissions and Guidelines
Arie Freiberg and Julian V. Roberts (Monash University - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Centre for Criminology) have posted Sentencing Commissions and Guidelines: A Case Study in Policy Transfer…