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...Lisa A. Rich © The Ohio State University Congress Should Engage in Sentencing Review: Some Ideas for the 111th Congress The June 2008 edition of the Federal Sentencing Reporter highlighted a fact that we have all witnessed this election season: crime and criminal justice policy...

...United States Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to the Congress: Downward Departures From the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (in response to section 401(m) of Public Law 108-21) October 8, 2003 Editor s Note: Subsection (m) of the enacted Feeney Amendment, entitled...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Now What? The Post-Booker Challenge for Congress and the Sentencing Commission DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Editor and William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Right after...

...Kevin Bennardo © The Ohio State University Dear Congress: Remove the Committed an Offense Requirement from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) Congress should amend 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), the statute that grants a sentencing court limited authority to impose a sentence below a mandatory minimum based...

...United States Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to Congress: Federal Child Pornography Offenses: Executive Summary UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION A. Overview This report is the result of a multi-year process in which the United States Sentencing Commission...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to Congress: Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy Chapter 1 OVERVIEW A. INTRODUCTION This is the United States Sentencing Commission s fourth report to Congress on the subject of federal cocaine sentencing policy.1 The Commission...

...Lisa Lewis © The Ohio State University Federal Drug Sentencing Reform after Booker: Lessons Congress Can Learn from the New York Drug Law Reform Act In 1984 Congress passed the landmark Sentencing Reform Act, which created the U.S. Sentencing Commission and directed it to develop the Federal...

...James Felman © The Ohio State University How Should the Congress Respond if the Supreme Court Strikes Down the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? I. Introduction What are the options? On the assumption that the Supreme Court in Booker1 and Fanfan2 holds that the guideline maximum is the relevant...

...United States Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System Executive Summary A. OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Introduction This report assesses the impact of mandatory minimum penalties on federal...

...Paul J. Hofer © The Ohio State University Review of the U.S. Sentencing Commission s Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System The U.S. Sentencing Commission has the resources to identify smarter sentencing policies policies that could save money...

...Judge Andrew S. Effron; Jonathan J. Wroblewski Abstract In recently-enacted legislation, Congress drew upon the 35-year experience with sentencing reform in the federal civilian criminal courts to reform significant aspects of the sentencing process in the military justice system. The article...

... accurately to Congress. Further, the Agency was created to oversee a vastly different population than the aging and medically vulnerable people under its jurisdiction now. The article recommends amending the First Step Act to allow all old law people to apply for compassionate release under the same...

... © The Ohio State University Letters to Congress from Sentencing Commissioners, Judicial Conference and Chief Justice Rehnquist EditorÕs Note: The following four letters were sent to Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Patrick J. Leahy by past and present members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission...

...Albert W. Alschuler © The Ohio State University To Sever or not to Sever? Why Blakely Requires Action by Congress The Supreme Court s decision in Blakely v. Washington1 requires a response from Congress the sooner the better. At present, however, the Senate has merely passed a resolution...

... regarding whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines would remain valid. The Sentencing Commission, in testimony before Congress and in its own amicus brief, vigorously asserted that the holding in Blakely did not apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Although the Court ultimately extended Blakely...

... and invalidating the two provisions that made the Guidelines mandatory, thereby rendering the guidelines advisory. A majority of the Supreme Court contemplated that advisory guidelines would not be a permanent solution and anticipated that Congress would consider legislation in the wake of the Booker decision...

... © The Ohio State University First Annual Report to Congress on Crime Victims Rights LEONIDAS RALPH MECHAM Director of Administrative Office of the United States Courts Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 75 77, ISSN 1053-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363 ©2006 Vera Institute...

... changed dramatically in 1996 when Congress amended 28 U.S.C. § 2254 with the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Old and new procedural barriers to habeas review were codified. Merits review of state court decisions became highly deferential. In a series of recent decisions discussed...

...Text of Senate Bill 619 from 113th Congress © The Ohio State University Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 S. 619 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent unjust and irrational criminal punishments. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH 20, 2013 Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. LEAHY...

...Text of Senate Bill 1410 from 113th Congress © The Ohio State University The Smarter Sentencing Act S. 1410 To focus limited Federal resources on the most serious offenders. TEXT OF SENATE BILL 1410 FROM 113TH CONGRESS IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JULY 31, 2013 Mr. DURBIN (for himself...