Sentences with phrase «current federal sentencing»

I will now likely use the long weekend (which I am about to start by going off - line for a while) to reflect on the current federal sentencing reform «big picture» circa mid-2016.

A federal district judge who has sentenced more than 4,000 offenders in multiple districts shares his experience and criticisms of current federal sentencing.

Not exact matches

«In a scathing criticism of the current system for handing out punishment for defendants convicted of federal crimes, a judge on Monday declared the federal sentencing guidelines unconstitutional.

I am inclined to call much of this a «Sessions effect» because the signals from the top of the current Justice Department would seem to be urging more and more federal prosecutions across the board (while also urging tougher approaches to sentencing).

In producing this Issue, our goal has been to provide an overview of the current state of American sentencing and to present a variety of perspectives on the issues that Congress will likely have to consider in order to reshape the Federal Sentencing Gsentencing and to present a variety of perspectives on the issues that Congress will likely have to consider in order to reshape the Federal Sentencing GSentencing Guidelines.

Whatever one thinks about the Court's purported moves to the right on other issues, in the arena of criminal sentencing, federal defendants certainly should be more hopeful arguing before the current Justices than before any other group of appellate judges.