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Justice Breyer indicates plan to retire … and first big legacy review ignores landmark <em>Booker</em> ruling to focus on capital dissent
Major outlets are today a buzz with news that US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has told Prez Biden that he plans to retire soon. Speculation about who Prez Biden…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Connecticut Supreme Court reverses sentence based "materially false information" that defendant was in "mythical group of teenage 'superpredators'"
A few helpful folks made sure I did not miss the notable ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court this past Friday in State v. Belcher, No. SC 20531 (Conn. Jan…
Appellate and Supreme Court
Connecticut Supreme Court reverses sentence based “materially false information” that defendant was in “mythical group of teenage ‘superpredators'”
A few helpful folks made sure I did not miss the notable ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court this past Friday in State v. Belcher, No. SC 20531 (Conn. Jan…
Simple Justice
First Pardon, Then 42 Years in Prison For The Same Conduct
Much as we’re understanding drug addiction, as a stand alone state, to be a health problem, the need to get the next fix causes people to do terrible things. Patrick…
Criminal
SCOTUS to hear argument over terms of crack offense resentencing under FIRST STEP Act
The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument on Wednesday morning in Concepcion v. US, No. 20-1650, which presents the following sentencing issue as phrased by the petitioner in this brief:Whether, when…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Can anyone estimate how many (thousands of) federal prison years have been based on acquitted conduct sentencing?
The question in the title of this post came to mind when I saw just the latest example of a federal circuit court upholding a lengthy federal sentence based in…
Other
New paper explores “Reimagining Judging” in the US “after a decades long love affair with prison”
Retired US District Judge Nancy Gertner, who is now teaches at Harvard Law School, has this great new 44-page report titled "Reimagining Judging" released as part of the the Square…
Criminal
Making the case, because “upper-class offenders … might be even more reprehensible,” for a severe sentence for Elizabeth Holmes
Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade has this notable MSNBC opinion piece that makes a full-throated argument for throwing the book ay former Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. I recommend the piece…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Making the case, because "upper-class offenders … might be even more reprehensible," for a severe sentence for Elizabeth Holmes
Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade has this notable MSNBC opinion piece that makes a full-throated argument for throwing the book ay former Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. I recommend the piece…
Law Times News
Sentencing judge ignored collateral consequences regarding trafficker’s immigration status: ONCA
Mansaray was abducted as a child soldier in Sierra Leone before escaping and migrating to Canada