... and unjust sentences. Judges in certain federal circuits, however, have been increasingly constrained by appellate case law that cabins judicial discretion. This article makes the case for the Sentencing Commission to expand and codify in its forthcoming policy statement judicial discretion to identify...

... proposals the Commission has presented for comment, and presents the choices through the lens of one incarcerated person’s experience. © 2023 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 Compassionate release Judicial discretion Guideline amendment Extraordinary and compelling First Step...

... Commission Mandatory minimums Judicial discretion Individualized sentencing Advice for a New Sentencing Commission: Stronger Advocacy for Abolishing Mandatory Minimum Sentences President Biden recently announced a slate of nominees to the U.S. Sentencing Commission ( Commission among them former U.S...

..., error, or prejudice. sentencing purposes of punishment retribution deterrence incapacitation judicial discretion explanation rationality reason-giving © 2022 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2022 Making Sense of Sentences The penal policies of this country have...

... heuristics for exercising ends of the criminal case process, but it earns dedicated judicial discretion. instructional time at the Workshop in light of the poten- tional for behavior at this stage to make or break a sen- Indeed, when sentencing is grounded in empirical tencing judge s assessment...

...) principally by restraining judicial discretion. Proponents a quantitative component that statistically analyzes of this package hoped that it would end judge-to-judge and numerical data from a large sample of individual sentences region-to-region disparities, promote candor in sentencing, and (2...

... stakeholders to look elsewhere, including either legislative reform or appointment of a more diverse set of district judges. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 substantive reasonableness judicial discretion bird’s-eye view mine-run case judicial review From the Bird s...

.... FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 33, NO. 4 APRIL 2021 249 Ohio sentencing data trial court Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission justice statewide criminal sentencing database judiciary judicial discretion ...

... judicial discretion racial fairness Anticipating the Judicial Response to Ohio s Proposed Statewide Sentencing Database SCOTT A. I. Introduction II. Preserving Discretion, Not Avoiding Hard Work, Is ANDERSON* In her recent State of the Judiciary Address,1 Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O...

... the potential of the new compassionate release process as modified by the First Step Act, Congress should avoid concurrent systems of release and judicial discretion over early release should be expanded by statute or via an updated Sentencing Commission policy statement. © 2020 Vera Institute of Justice. All...