2018

March 22, 2018
Supreme Court Unanimously Vacates Fifth Circuit Decision Denying Capital Petitioner's Funding Request
March 22, 2018
AG Sessions Issues Memo “Strongly” Encouraging Federal Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty In “Appropriate” Drug Cases
March 22, 2018
Fourth Circuit Holds Conspiracy To Commit Murder In Aid Of Racketeering Is Not A Crime Of Violence Under The Guidelines
March 21, 2018
SCOTUS Holds That Defendant Must Be Aware Of A Particular Investigation Or Audit To Be Convicted Under 26 U.S.C. § 7212(a)
March 19, 2018
Supreme Court Grants Certiorari On Mandatory Detention Under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c)
March 19, 2018
Justice Sotomayor Questions Validity Of Ohio Denying Appellate Review To Life-Without-Parole Sentences
March 19, 2018
Four Justices Question The Constitutionality of Arizona’s Death Penalty Scheme
March 16, 2018
CDC Reports 30% Increase In Opioid Overdoses From July 2016 to September 2017
March 16, 2018
Sentencing Comm’n Issues Report On Man-Min Penalties for Firearm Offenses
March 14, 2018
Sentencing Comm’n Hears Testimony On Proposed Guideline Amendments Re: Synthetic Drugs and First Offender/Alternatives to Incarceration
March 13, 2018
Scholarship On 11th Circuit’s “Tug-of-War” Over What Is An ACCA Violent Felony
March 13, 2018
Sentencing Commission Releases 2017 Annual Report and 2017 Sourcebook Statistics
March 12, 2018
Sentencing Commission Releases Guidelines App
March 12, 2018
PEW Brief Shows No Relationship Between Prison Terms For Drug Offenses And Rates Of Drug Use, Arrests, Or Overdose Deaths
March 12, 2018
Ninth Circuit Holds District Court Improperly Applied Factors In Denying Minor Role Adjustment Post Amendment 794
March 6, 2018
En Banc First Circuit Urges SCOTUS To Revisit 8th Amendment Proportionality Jurisprudence In 924(c) Context
March 5, 2018
Ninth Circuit Vacates Several Conditions Of Supervised Release, Recognizing Circuit Conflict
March 5, 2018
Justices Grant Certiorari in SORNA Case
February 27, 2018
SCOTUS Holds Immigration Law Does Not Require Periodic Bond Hearings To Certain Detained Aliens
February 26, 2018
SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument In Microsoft and Lozman Tuesday
February 26, 2018
Eleventh Circuit Holds Florida Drug Statute Indivisible And Categorically Overbroad, Thus, Not An Aggravated Felony Under INA
February 26, 2018
Justices To Review Alabama Competency To Be Executed Case A Second Time
February 26, 2018
En Banc Fifth Circuit Holds That A Texas Burglary Statute Is Indivisible and Nongeneric, Creating a Possible Circuit Conflict
February 22, 2018
Supreme Court Holds that a Guilty Plea Does Not Inherently Waive a Constitutional Challenge to the Statute of Conviction
February 20, 2018
ICE Arresting More Immigrants With Prior Criminal Convictions

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