This article discusses Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines, which went into effect on November 1, 2023, adding a new “zero-point offender” adjustment. The white-collar bar lauded this amendment ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Only sentencing guideline aficionados would have paid close attention to yesterday morning’s decision in Beckles v. United ...
On November 1, 2025, the most recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual went into effect. Among other changes, the amendments streamline the sentencing process from three steps to two ...
(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the issue of how to handle a lower court's use of incorrect sentencing guidelines for a deportee convicted of being in the country illegally. Saul ...
New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement ...
How much leeway does the judiciary have and can decisions be reconsidered?
Paris Shears wants an end to sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases ...
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