... prosecutors were operating under aging, interim charging, pleas, and sentencing guidelines, issued barely a week after President Biden took office, that revived former Attorney General Holder’s 2010 policies. But, in just a matter of months, the federal system has gone from a holding pattern to warp speed...

...Kelly Lyn Mitchell This essay on the obligations of sentencing commissions to constantly reassess their policies is adapted from the speech given by Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Chair of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, upon receiving the Richard P. Kern Memorial Award from the National...

.... This can show whether Sentencing Guidelines section 3E1.1operates to apply coercive pressure when sentencing exposure increases sharply the longer the defendant takes to plead guilty. Punishing defendants more seriously the longer their cases proceed can chill investigation and force confessions even when...

...Jon O. Newman The Sentencing Guidelines are needlessly complicated, and can be easily simplified if the Commission’s long-promised “evolution” will finally begin. Simpli ed Guidelines Now or Never When Judge Marvin E. Frankel proposed sentencing guidelines in 1973, and when I testi ed in favor...

... impacts on recommended sentences and potential disparity. We conclude with a discussion of research on juvenile cognitive development and its implications as related to our findings. © 2022 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2022 sentencing guidelines prior record juveniles...

... instrument; comprehensive review of the use of criminal history in the Pennsylvania Sentencing Guidelines; establishment of state parole guidelines; and design of a modular population projection simulation model. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Sentencing data data...

... audience. He immediately cast a pall on the proceedings by blasting the Federal Sentencing Guidelines ( guidelines which were still mandatory at the time, and likening judges who sentenced within them (dozens of whom were present) to the judges in Nazi Germany. The third is when Jack came to my chambers...

... their worst act—could be salvaged, and deserved happiness. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Judge Weinstein sentencing sentencing guidelines mandatory minimums terrorism child pornography deterrence Sentencing with Love, Not Hate I. Just get out of the way and let...

... Sentencing Guidelines Commission, I was prepping for the next meeting of the Commission. The meeting was originally scheduled for June 4 just ten days after George Floyd s death and it felt hypocritical to con- tinue with business as usual. When a memorial service for Mr. Floyd was announced for the same...

... illuminate the path forward. © 2020 Vera Institute of Justice 2020 sentencing crime punishment guidelines sentencing guidelines supreme court Congress Justice Breyer E D I T O R S O B S E R V A T I O N S Looking Backward and Moving Forward STEVEN L. CHANENSON FSR Co-Managing Editor...

...Richard S. Frase This article updates the author’s previous survey of guidelines systems, published in this journal in 1999, and reviews what these reforms have and have not accomplished. Sentencing guidelines developed by an independent sentencing commission are currently being used in 17 states...

... that help to explain why some states have been able to maintain consistently low prison rates, or to lower their formerly high rates. One such practice is the use of sentencing guidelines combined with parole abolition, developed and monitored by an adequately funded independent sentencing commission...

...Juliet Kamuzze The Ugandan Taskforce on developing sentencing guidelines recently drafted sentencing guidelines for Uganda, which were issued as practice directions by the Chief Justice to assist judges and magistrates in the sentencing decision making process. Like in many other jurisdictions...

... the continued constitutional fallout from Blakely , and the current policy debates that have come to define modern sentencing systems. © 2014 Vera Institute of Justice 2014 Sentencing punishment crime Blakely Supreme Court mass incarceration sentencing guidelines Congress Sentencing Commission...

... that these offenders receive a advisory sentencing range that reflects the Commission’s research and expertise rather than one that is bound to inapplicable statutory mandatory minimums. © 2014 Vera Institute of Justice 2014 sentencing U.S. Sentencing Commission sentencing guidelines drug trafficking...

... sentencing guidelines system judicially created by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in United States v. Booker . It describes the basic positions of the main institutional actors, briefly summarizes the articles in the issue, and makes a prediction about the likelihood of action in the near term. ©...

... feature excoriated by critics of the original sentencing guidelines. Its extreme 'advisoriness,' while partially ameliorating some problems with the original guidelines, reintroduces the very concerns about unreviewable judicial arbitrariness that spawned the structured sentencing movement in the first...

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