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• Feds and Jeff Skilling cut resentencing deal to fix new guideline range at 168 to 210 months

  
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  As had been previewed a public notice to victims from the Justice Department last month ( noted here ), federal prosecutors and former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling have reached a deal concerning unresolved matters before Skillings resentencing. This Reuters article details the basics of this notable high-profile ...
  1 week ago

• Senate hearings scheduled this afternnon for two of Prez Obamas USSC nominees

  
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  As detailed on this official Senate Judiciary Committee webpage , today at 2:30pm there is a scheduled a hearing on "Nominations" which includes the nomination of "William H. Pryor, Jr., to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission" and "Rachel Elise Barkow, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing ...
  1 week ago

• New bipartisan House Judiciary Committee task force to examine overcriminalization

  
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  As reported in this Wall Street Journal article , Congress is creating a new federal criminal justice task force to address the problem of Congress creating too much federal criminal justice.  The article is headlined "Task Force Aims to Lighten Criminal Code: Bipartisan Congressional Initiative Targets Bloated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should the top 1% get sentenced extra tough for defrauded Social Security?

  
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  The question in the title of this post is prompted by this notable report of an interesting federal sentencing proceeding taking place today in Minnesota.  Here are the basics: A North Oaks couple will be sentenced Monday for defrauding the Social Security Administration of more than $300,000 in medical assistance ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notable new Judge Weinstein opinion on child porn sentencing for juve offender

  
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  Over the weekend, experienced lawyer and federal sentencing guru Mark Allenbaugh ( firm website here ) alerted me to what he called a "new and (again) excellent opinion by Judge Jack Weinstein" in U.S. v. D.M. , 12-CR-170 (EDNY May 1, 2013) ( available here ).  The opinion runs nearly 50 pages, and Mark provided a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Imagine the debate and analysis if we had an "FSG draft"

  
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  Hard-core football fans have long had this date circled on their calendars because tonight is the start of the 2013 National Football League Draft .  Though I am a huge sports fan, I tend not to get too worked up about who may be taken in the first round by what team or whether and when there will be some big ...
  3 weeks ago

• Justice Safety Valve Act gets bipartisan introduction in House of Representatives

  
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  A helpful media members forwarded me a press release which provided the basis for this notable federal sentencing news from inside the Beltway: Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-VA, and Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, today introduced the bipartisan Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, which would ...
  3 weeks ago

• If (and when?) confirmed, will Judge William Pryor champion federalism concerns within the US Sentencing Commission?

  
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  As reported in this post yesterday , President Obama officially nominated three new persons to serve on the US Sentencing Commission: an east-coast academic ( NYU Professor Rachel Barkow ) a west-coast district judge ( ND Cal Judge Charles Breyer ), and a southern appeals judge ( Eleventh Circuit Judge ...
  4 weeks ago

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