Sentences with phrase «federal sentencing hearings»
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Tsarnaev's death sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
A federal judge delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a pre-sentencing hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors are accurate and should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.
The witness, who was supposed to testify in a hearing before the sentencing in Terry's federal case, may be called the same day to testify in the ongoing trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.
A federal judge Friday delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.
Joe Bruno was about half an hour into a rambling speech at his sentencing hearing when he blurted out that all of the private business deals that got him convicted of federal corruption charges were negotiated by «the lawyers.»
Less than two hours after it started, today's hearing of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee, titled «Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years after U.S. v. Booker,» has come to a close.
I am hearing a range of post-Booker anecdotal reports from the federal sentencing front - lines.
«Webcast of House hearing on federal sentencing after Booker available Main «Should the USSC publish sentencing data for individual judges?»»
««The Costs of Judging Judges by the Numbers» Main Webcast of House hearing on federal sentencing after Booker available»
Known as acquitted and uncharged conduct sentencing, the practice is raising a sharp question among legal scholars: Should federal judges dole out tougher sentences based on accusations that jurors rejected or never heard during trial?
Following a day - long hearing, the federal judge departed from guidelines providing for a sentence in excess of 20 years to impose a 14 - month sentence.
Two weeks from today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Claiborne and Rita, two cases that will explore what Booker really means for federal sentencing.
And, interestingly, we never hear complaints or concerns about unelected federal prosecutors making policy judgments at sentencing (even though prosecutorial policy judgments are not made in open court nor subject to any kind of review).
In discussion of post-Booker federal sentencing at the Yale Law School class I recently had the pleasure of attending, I was surprised to often hear the refrain that judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing.
After a multi-day sentencing hearing with multiple expert witnesses, the court sentenced Zuk to 26 months active incarceration time, versus his 324 to 405 months of prison time provided in the federal sentencing guidelines.
The article notes that the Gall case «could affect criminal sentences in every federal courtroom in America,» and the editorial calls for «Congress [to] eliminate the garden - variety drug prosecutions and return the federal courts to their original purpose of hearing major criminal cases that cut across state lines and exceed local authority and resources.»
The judges decided not to have the entire federal appeals court in Manhattan hear the appeal of lawyer Lynne Stewart's sentence of a little over two years in prison.
While I have heard these refrains before, I find them both odd and at odds with fundamental notions of separation of powers and federal sentencing judges» overarching command to impose a sentence that is «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes» of federal sentencing.