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Sentencing
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Criminal
AGAIN: You be the judge: what sentence for Michael Avenatti (and do the guidelines merit any respect)?
UP AGAIN: I posted this discussion of a notable scheduled sentencing last month just before Michael Avenatti secured a short postponement. This new Wall Street Journal article, headlined "Michael Avenatti…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Any hot takes on another lukewarm criminal justice Term from SCOTUS?
Last year as the Supreme Court's October 2019 Term was winding to a close, I pondered in this post whether "others sense that SCOTUS has become particularly (and problematically?) quiet…
Criminal
Any hot takes on another lukewarm criminal justice Term from SCOTUS?
Last year as the Supreme Court's October 2019 Term was winding to a close, I pondered in this post whether "others sense that SCOTUS has become particularly (and problematically?) quiet…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Latest online issue of NACDL's "The Champion" full of sentencing articles
I am pleased to see that the April 2021 issue of The Champion, a magazine/journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is now online. The cover calls this…
Criminal Lawyer Illinois
Truth-in-sentencing: defendants must serve more than 50% of the sentence imposed
NOTE: The article below includes updated material to explore how Public Act 101-440 impacted truth-in-sentencing laws in Illinois. After an effective date of January 1, 2020, this Act opened a…
Criminal
Latest online issue of NACDL’s “The Champion” full of sentencing articles
I am pleased to see that the April 2021 issue of The Champion, a magazine/journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is now online. The cover calls this…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Interesting split Fourth Circuit panel debate while upholding resentencing to 52 years for violent offenses by 15-year-old
A helpful reader made sure I did not miss the interesting discussion of sentencing practices and outcomes by a Fourth Circuit panel yesterday in US v. Friend, No. 20-4129 (4th…
Criminal
Interesting split Fourth Circuit panel debate while upholding resentencing to 52 years for violent offenses by 15-year-old
A helpful reader made sure I did not miss the interesting discussion of sentencing practices and outcomes by a Fourth Circuit panel yesterday in US v. Friend, No. 20-4129 (4th…
On Point
SCOW to review sentencing decisions that consider defendant’s religion and impact of sentence on defendant’s religious community
By Wisconsin State Public Defender
State v. Westley D. Whitaker, 2020AP29-CR, petition for review of a published decision of the court of appeals granted 6/16/21; case activity (including briefs) Issues Presented (from the PFR and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUSblog flags three notable new sentencing cert petitions
Last year around this time, I expressed my sense that it has been quite some time since the Supreme Court has taken up a really big and interesting sentencing case. …