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Original Technorati articles tagged “sentencing”

• in Lifestyle
  Van der Sloot Awaits Sentencing for Murder in Peru
  The primary suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has pleaded guilty of murdering a Peruvian woman.
  by jenna3967 / on Jan 12, 2012
• in Entertainment
  'Lil Wayne's Grillz Postpone Sentencing
  Lil Wayne's grillz keep him out of prison...for now.
  by gaspare / on Feb 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sentencing”

 

• Attorney General v Dallas – WLR Daily

  
  Current Awareness — Authority: 133
  Attorney General v Dallas [2012] WLR (D) 7 “In the context of alleged contempt of court by or affecting a juror or jury in the Crown Court, neither the Attorney General nor the alleged contemnor had any right to seek a trial by jury on indictment. The correct procedure, unless it was appropriate for the Crown ...
  4 days ago

• Drug guidelines suggest lighter sentences for ‘social dealers’ – The Guardian

  
  Current Awareness — Authority: 133
  “Recreational drug users who naively buy small quantities to share with their friends could avoid jail under sentencing guidelines for drug offences published on Tuesday.” Full story The Guardian, 24th January 2012 Source: www.guardian.co.uk
  6 days ago

• Sentencing Council launches new definitive guideline for drug offences – Sentencing Council

  
  Current Awareness — Authority: 133
  “Today, the Sentencing Council is publishing a new guideline for judges and magistrates on the sentencing of drug offences.” Full story Sentencing Council, 24th January 2012 Source: http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk
  6 days ago

• Tenth Circuit (grudgingly?) upholds ruling striking down Albuquerque ban on sex offenders in libraries

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  Late yesterday, a Tenth Circuit panel affirmed in Doe v. City of Albuquerque , No. 10-2102 (10th Cir. Jan. 20, 2012) ( available here ), a district courts ruling striking down a local ban on registered sex offenders entering public libraries. But, as the start of the ruling hints, it almost seems as though the panel ...
  1 week ago

• Ohio asks SCOTUS to vacate stay of state execution

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  As reported in this AP piece , "Ohio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state’s lethal injection procedures, arguing that minor deviations in policy don’t mean the system is unconstitutional." Here are the basics: The office of Attorney General Mike DeWine says that, without Supreme Court action, ...
  1 week ago

• New paper say there "is no need for a Booker fix; Booker is the fix."

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  The quote in this title of this post comes from the end of the abstract of this new paper by Amy Baron-Evans and Professor Kate Stith entitled "Booker Rules."  Here is the full abstract: For the first time, this paper examines the fateful 1987 statutory amendment that was interpreted by the Supreme Court to ...
  1 week ago

• "Poll: Should felons be allowed to vote after serving their sentences?"

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  The title of this post is the headline that fronts this new CNN piece reviewing the debate that arose between GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.  Before getting to the poll, the CNN piece provides this background: Twenty-three states have eased felon voting restrictions since 1997, but in 2011, Florida ...
  1 week ago

• Ex-Prez of Ohio State Bar Inflated Law Firm Biz Expenses, Gets 1 Year in Federal Tax Case

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  A former president of the Ohio State Bar Association has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to falsifying federal tax returns. Under the sentence he received from a federal judge in Youngstown, Leslie W. "Les" Jacobs, 67, must also serve just under four months in home ...
  1 week ago

• US Sentencing Commission publishes (lengthy) set of proposed guideline amendments and issues for comment

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  Via a posting on its website, the US Sentencing Commission has now released this document  which serves as its "Federal Register Notice of Proposed Amendments to Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Policy Statements, and Commentary," as well as a "Request for Public Comment" (which is due no later than March 19, ...
  1 week ago

• Attorney Sibling Helps Driver Jailed for DUI Manslaughter Sue Estate of Victim in Fatal Crash

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  David Belniak is serving a 12-year sentence in a Florida prison after taking a plea in a criminal case over a fatal accident. Three people were killed in a Dec. 25, 2007 crash in which his pickup rear-ended a sports utility vehicle stopped at a red light on U.S. 19 in broad daylight. Beniak, traveling at over 75 mph, ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Rules for Death-Row Inmate Whose BigLaw Lawyers Missed the Appeal Deadline

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples isnt barred from appealing his conviction because of a blown appeals deadline caused by the departure of his BigLaw pro bono lawyers. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 for Maples, finding there is cause to excuse the procedural default. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the ...
  1 week ago

• Canada: Doctor guilty of sexually assaulting boys

  
  Medical License Verification — Authority: 128
  cbc.ca on January 17, 2012 reported that a former Edmonton doctor was found guilty on three of nine sex-related charges Tuesday. Javier Mauricio Castillo Cortes showed no reaction during decision Tuesday. Javier Mauricio Castillo Cortes, showed no reaction as he was convicted on two counts of unlawfully touching a ...
  1 week ago

• Tarrant County Death Sentenced Reduces for Brady Violation

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  The action was expected following an agreement reached last year.  " Chelsea Richardsons sentence officially reduced ," is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram report written by Alex Branch. If Chelsea Richardson felt relief when her death sentence officially became a life sentence, she did not show it. Richardson was ...
  1 week ago

• SCOTUS gives break to death row petitioners whose lawyers missed deadline

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  The Supreme Court this morning handed down an opinion today in the high-profile (and low-impact?) capital case of Maples v. Thomas .  Here is the early report on the ruling via SCOTUSblog : The Court ... holds that Maples has shown cause to excuse his procedural default. It is an RBG opinion. It is 7-2, with ...
  1 week ago

• Should donating lots and lots of blood justify a below-guideline federal sentence?

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  The question in the title of this post is prompted by this article discussing federal filings in the run-up to the sentencing of a local Pennsylvania politician convicted of multiple corruption charges.  Here are the details: Federal prosecutors asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject pleas for leniency from ...
  1 week ago

• Delaware Governor commutes death sentence based principally on childhood abuse

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  As reported in this local article , "Delaware Gov. Jack Markell on Tuesday spared the life of condemned killer Robert A. Gattis, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection early Friday morning." Here are the details explaining why this clemency decision is both historic and intriguing: It is the first time in ...
  1 week ago

• Billy Lane To Start A Custom Motorcycle Project While Still Behind Bars

  
  Cyril Huze Blog — Authority: 120
  On August 14, 2009 Billy Lane was sentenced to 6 years in Prison regarding the vehicular homicide case in connection with a September 4, 2006 crash that left Gerald Morelock dead. Upon his release from prison (to happen sooner than 2015 because Billy will be credited 2 days... This is a content summary only. Click on ...
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• Top-side brief in Southern Union explains why Sixth Amendment Apprendi rule applies to fines

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  All Apprendi / Blakely fans (and, for that matter, all Apprendi / Blakely haters) will want to check out this SCOTUS merits brief from the petitioner in Southern Union v. US , which was filed last week.  Here is the start of the briefs statement of the case This case raises the question whether the ...
  1 week ago

• Notable Second Circuit (unpublished) ruling finds way-below-guideline sentence procedurally unreasonable

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  A helpful reader alerted me to an interesting unpublished reasonableness ruling today from the Second Circuit in US v. LM , No. 10-371 (2d Cir. Jan. 17, 2012) ( available here ).   The background facts in LM alone make the case noteworthy: The facts here are undisputed. L.M. began distributing marijuana in the ...
  1 week ago

• Post-Sentencing Facebook Comments Put NinjaVideo ‘Phara’ On Fast Track to Prison Cell

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 667
  The woman known as the "Phara" of a now-defunct movie downloading site apparently made two crucial miscalculations when she was sentenced earlier this month in a criminal copyright-infringement case. First, Hana Beshara posted about her 22-month prison term on a Facebook account for NinjaVideo and elsewhere, in a ...
  1 week ago

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