As reported in this Fox News piece, the "Senate voted late Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, voting 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and ...

The Court understands that sentence disparities between codefendants are often ordinary. But when that disparity is as large as it is here and when the criminal conduct of the defendant who received ...

A Paulding County courtroom was filled with emotion as a judge sentenced a man to 475 years in prison for dog fighting and animal cruelty, marking the maximum penalty possible under the law.

federalist: If a Prez would not be allowed to condition clemency this way, then you are stating there is a (non-textual) limit on the pardon power. And if there is such a limit on the power --- coming ...

It is this destructive practice of sentencing deception that has been in large part the motivation for the “truth in sentencing” movement examined in Part IV. In the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the ...

Erlinger now makes plain what Apprendi signaled years ago — the exception for the fact of a prior conviction is questionable to begin with, and as a result, it must be applied narrowly. In short, the ...