Sentences with phrase «federal sentencing rules»

To judges and others who long battled strict federal sentencing rules for crack cocaine offenders — considered draconian and racist by longtime opponents — Monday's Supreme Court decision brought vindication.

Not exact matches

And some federal court rulings make it difficult for local jails to hold immigrants beyond their criminal sentences or strictly for immigration violations.

U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling Monday, saying it did not matter that investors eventually came out ahead since the amount of loss plays a significant role in federal sentencing guidelines.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein won't get any reduction in his 50 - year federal prison sentence despite arguing he deserved one for cooperating with the feds, who say he lied to them, a judge ruled Monday.

Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.

The federal judge overseeing the case, Judge Valerie Caproni, ruled Thursday that because she would consider the sealed evidence as part of Silver's sentencing, the public had a right to know the information.

In May he received a sentence of two years in federal prison, which was then promptly suspended pending the Supreme Court's ruling.

The federal appeals court has not yet ruled on the corruption convictions and prison sentences of former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

As the federal government moves to limit judicial discretion in the sentencing of violent crimes, a recent decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal has reasserted the court's authority, ruling that jurors in murder trials need not be unanimous in their sentencing recommendation to the court.

He ruled that the discs were worth $ 700,000, and sentenced Lundgren to 15 months in prison — far less than the 36 to 47 months called for by federal sentencing guidelines — and a $ 50,000 fine.

As a recent federal ruling, U.S. v. Dicus (reducing a sentence as a sanction for prosecutorial misconduct) proves, legal scholarship can have an impact on the outcome of a case, even if a paper hasn't been published in a top journal.

They include volumes covering Title 18 of the U.S. Code, the federal sentencing guidelines, the federal search and seizure manual, various Texas codes and rules, and various federal court rules.

This sentence also has some obfuscating adjectives: should we infer from the wording that there is a different rule for «abnormal federal prisoners» than for «normal» prisoners»?

Federal sentencing fanatics know that the Paul case in the Ninth Circuit is significant because it was arguably the first (and might still be considered the only) circuit ruling that a within - guideline sentence should be reversed as substantively unreasonable.

For example, in federal criminal cases, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, rules assembled by the US Sentencing Commission that are, of course, non-binding, set a floor and ceiling on the years in prison one should be sentenced to in various circumstances with a formula used to make the calcufederal criminal cases, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, rules assembled by the US Sentencing Commission that are, of course, non-binding, set a floor and ceiling on the years in prison one should be sentenced to in various circumstances with a formula used to make the calcuFederal Sentencing Guidelines, rules assembled by the US Sentencing Commission that are, of course, non-binding, set a floor and ceiling on the years in prison one should be sentenced to in various circumstances with a formula used to make the calculation.

Earlier today, the Supremes ruled 5 - 4 that «federal judges have been improperly adding time to criminals» sentences, a decision that puts in doubt longtime sentencing rules.»

True, other writers have objected to the historical foundation of the one - space rule, but I've found no good authority (including the local rules of the states and many federal courts to which I'm admitted) that you should include two spaces after a sentence - ending period in court documents.

When accused of a federal crime you face mandatory sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe penfederal crime you face mandatory sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe penFederal Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe Sentencing Guidelines and a different set of rules that could result in strict and severe penalties.

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In Booker, the Court struck down the federal sentencing guidelines system under the Apprendi rule.

Straughn's unusual case was made possible by a series of federal and state court decisions that overturned the rules judges use when sentencing criminals.

I am not sure what bother me more: the fact that federal defendants rarely prevail in sentencing appeals or the fact that when they do some circuit seem eager to suggest these rulings are inconsequential by deciding they should be «unpublished.»

As detailed in this Los Angeles Times piece, headlined «To some jurists, high court ruling brings vindication,» federal sentencing judges long troubled by the rigidity and severity of the federal guidelines are sure to celebrate the Supreme Court's work yesterday in Gall and Kimbrough.

Executions typically follow death sentences in the United States by ten years or so, because it takes about ten years to complete a full set of direct appeals all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a state collateral attack with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (if relief is denied) and finally a federal habeas corpus petition with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.