Sentences with phrase «federal offense cases»
Over the course of her career in Criminal Defense, Eboni represented clients in murder, rape, drug, sex crime and federal offense cases.
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The attorney general's office records do not break down the cases by specific categories of offense because they are all related to harassment, discrimination and abuse based on gender and all were brought under the same federal civil rights law.
Another case being reviewed by federal prosecutors involves Mr. McPartland's 2014 prosecution of the Suffolk County technology commissioner, Donald Rodgers, on charges that included the rarely invoked offense of lying to the County Legislature.
DRM is usually discussed in the context of copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which makes circumvention of measures that control access to copyrighted works a civil offense (in some cases even a federal crime).
The case is Dillon v. United States, and at issue is the question of whether the federal sentencing guidelines are binding or only advisory when defendants who were originally sentenced before the decision in United States v. Booker are resentenced pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3582 (c)(2), after the guidelines applicable to the offense in question are changed.
Often conspiracy to deprive someone of their civil rights is used as a federal offense when there is a state level acquittal, and it isn't impossible to imagine that happening in this case as the victim had a right to the protection of the laws, and the state had a right to enforce the criminal laws, which was deprived in a manner that could be called «under color of state law.»
December 19, 2007 in Booker and Fanfan Commentary, Drug Offense Sentencing, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Gall reasonableness case, Kimbrough reasonableness case, New USSC crack guidelines and report, Who Sentences?