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Sentencing Law and Policy

About prisoner's right.
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Related Topics: federal prison, inmates, jail, prison, prison story, prisoner rights
Author: Douglas Berman
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You be the judge: what sentence should mom get for drunken breastfeeding?

Aug 7, 2009
Earlier this summer, I noted here the North Dakota story of a mother who pleaded guilty to child neglect after police found her “extremely intoxicated” while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby.  As detailed in this new piece...

Could vocal opposition to the death penalty, mass incarceration and the drug war help lead the GOP out of the wilderness?

May 5, 2009
The party switch of Senator Spector, after big losses in the last two elections, has conservative pundits talking about how the Republican party can get its mojo back.  For example, I heard on...

State execution team resigns due to lethal injection litigation

Apr 3, 2009
At least in Washington state, it appears that when the litigation going gets tough, the not-so-tough resign.  That's what I take away from this local story, headlined "State's execution team...

The many fascinating legal and social issues swirling around "sexting"

Mar 30, 2009
I had a chance to read closely this federal complaint filed last week by the ACLU of Pennsylvania against a local district attorney who threatened three high school girls with child porn charges...

Rapper T.I. gets a year-and-a-day federal sentence on gun charges

Mar 27, 2009
I have not followed closely the crime and possible punishment of Clifford Harris, aka rap star T.I.  But today was his sentencing, and this early AP story provides the basics: A judge has...

Atkins, juves and rules versus standards in the Eighth Amendment jurisprudence

Nov 23, 2009
The latest Sidebar feature from Adam Liptak in the New York Times has an interesting little discussion of rules and standards in the development of the Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.  The piece is headlined "Bright Lines Blur in Juvenile Sentencing,"...

"Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S."

Nov 23, 2009
The title of this post is the headline of this piece from today's Washington Post.  Here are a few excerpts: At last week's International Drug Reform Conference, activists gamed specific proposals for taxing and regulating pot along the lines of...

Is there a conflict-of-interest (and a real bias problem) when district judges help define a circuit's sentencing standards?

Nov 23, 2009
As noted in this post, today Sixth Circuit panels in two cases split over whether district judges had sentenced reasonably in two drug cases.  Beyond the specifics of the two rulings, I find especially noteworthy the fact that the "swing" voter...

Sixth Circuit panels splitting over many aspects of reasonableness review

Nov 23, 2009
Anyone longing for some juicy federal circuit court opinions on reasonableness review to discuss over the long weekend now need look no further than a couple of split panel rulings — dare I say turkeys? — handed down by the Sixth Circuit this...

The many new tech challenges surrounding the monitoring of old and new sex offenders

Nov 23, 2009
This morning's Washington Post has this fascinating and important new article headlined "Tracking sex-crime offenders gets trickier: Violator registry is growing as tech-savvy predators put a greater burden on officers." Here are excerpts: The...


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