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Sentencing
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California Supreme Court Review
How Did Defendants Fare in Criminal Sentencing Cases 2000-2009?
By Kirk Jenkins
Between 2000 and 2009, the Supreme Court decided 65 criminal sentencing cases. The Court decided for defendants in only 12 of those cases, deciding against them 53 times. Between 2000…
Illinois Supreme Court Review
How Did Defendants Fare in Criminal Sentencing Cases 2000-2009?
By Kirk Jenkins
Between 2000 and 2009, the Court decided 45 criminal sentencing cases. Defendants won 15 of those cases and lost 30. Between 2000 and 2004, defendants won six cases and lost…
Illinois Supreme Court Review
How Did Defendants Fare in Criminal Sentencing Cases at the Supreme Court 1990-1999?
By Kirk Jenkins
Today, we’re beginning our review of the Supreme Court’s voting record in criminal sentencing cases. Between 1990 and 1999, the Court decided 50 criminal sentencing cases. The Court found for…
California Supreme Court Review
How Did Defendants Fare in Criminal Sentencing Cases 1990-1999?
By Kirk Jenkins
Between 1990 and 1999, the Supreme Court decided 54 criminal sentencing cases. The Court sided with defendants in only one-third of those cases, finding against defendants 36 times. Between 1990…
Criminal
You be the federal judge: what sentence for Senator Rand Paul’s attacker at resentencing <em>after</em> 30 days deemed unreasonable?
Regular readers know that, more than 15 years after Booker created the reasonableness standard of appellate review for federal sentencing, circuit courts still almost never find a sentence to be…
Sentencing Law and Policy
You be the federal judge: what sentence for Senator Rand Paul's attacker at resentencing <em>after</em> 30 days deemed unreasonable?
Regular readers know that, more than 15 years after Booker created the reasonableness standard of appellate review for federal sentencing, circuit courts still almost never find a sentence to be…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s On Their Minds: Is it Constitutional for A Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Aggravated Murder to be Nonreviewable? State of Ohio v. David Carl Kinney
Further update: Pertinent to this remand is the holding in State v. Patrick that a constitutional challenge to a sentence is not barred by R.C. 2953.08(D)(3). So, on March 12,…
Other
“American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials”
The title of this post is the title of this recently published book authored by Sarah Beth Kaufman which now seem especially timely in light of the federal government's return…
Criminal
<em>Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice</em> explores federal sentencing realities and reform
The introductory essay I saw on SSRN (and blogged about here) altered me to the fact that the latest issue of the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social…
Sentencing Law and Policy
<em>Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice</em> explores federal sentencing realities and reform
The introductory essay I saw on SSRN (and blogged about here) altered me to the fact that the latest issue of the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social…