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Judge Young swings for the fences again
Doug Berman's remarkable Sentencing Law and Policy blog notes another key sentencing decision from U.S. District Judge William G. Young of Massachusetts, the jurist who declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional a few months before the U.S. Supreme Court issued...
Finally, some justice for Jamie Olis
The sad case of Jamie Olis has been a frequent topic on this blog as an egregious example of the injustice that has resulted from the government's increasing criminalization of business in American society. Last night, after many months of...
SCOTUS declines to clarify sentencing guidelines decision
In a surprising development, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to clarify its its decision earlier this year in U.S. v. Booker (previous posts here), in which the Court struck down the mandatory nature of the federal criminal sentencing system....
Fifth Circuit issues its first post-Booker decision
In its first decision since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Booker that overruled the mandatory nature of the federal sentencing guidelines, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on this past Friday explained how Booker issues are to...
A hopeful sign in the Enron Nigerian Barge case?
Yesterday brought perhaps the first sign that a more measured approach to sentencing in white collar criminal cases may be in the offing since the current trend of criminalizing questionable business transactions began with the meltdown of Enron in late...
More on the SCOTUS sentencing guidelines decision
The dust is settling on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday in United States v. Booker and United States v. Fanfan that the federal sentencing guidelines are unconstitutional because they violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to be tried by...
SCOTUS rules on sentencing guidelines
The Supreme Court ruled today in this decision in U.S. v. Booker that the federal sentencing guidelines must satisfy the standards of the Sixth Amendment as applied in the Court's earlier ruling in Blakely v. Washington. Accordingly, the Supreme Court...
Seventh Circuit decision on Blakely
Highly-regarded Circuit Judges Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals wrote the majority and dissenting opinions in this recent decision (U.S. v. Booker) interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in U.S. v. Blakely. In...
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