Search Results for Criminal Law Reform

...Jeremy Haile © The Ohio State University For a Law-and-Order President, Criminal Justice Reform Would be the Ultimate Deal Republicans now own the criminal justice system. As of 2017, the Republican party will control a majority of America s statehouses, at least 33 governorships, both...

...Eric Holder © The Ohio State University Remarks on Criminal Justice Reform at Georgetown University Law Center ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department February 11, 2014 Thank you, Wade [Henderson], for those kind words and thank you all for being here...

..., injury, or damage. Jay Rorty* Project Director, Criminal Law Reform Project, American Civil Liberties Union Scott Michelman* Staff Attorney, Criminal Law Reform Project, American Civil Liberties Union Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 273 276, ISSN 1053-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363. ©...

...Emma Andersson; Jeffery Robinson © The Ohio State University The Insidious Injustice of the Trial Penalty: It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist. EMMA ANDERSSON* Senior Staff Attorney, National ACLU s Criminal Law Reform Project JEFFERY ROBINSON...

... Scalia Law School, George Mason University DAN KING Senior Contributor, Civil Liberties & Criminal Justice Reform, Young Voices Cohost, Some Politics Podcast Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 259 261, ISSN 1053-9867, electronic ISSN 1533-8363. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights...

..., and the U.S. Department of Justice s criminal law reform guru Ronald Gainer. The group met a number of times and even in a simulation ran into the problems of outsized egos and intellectual rigidity that bedeviled the U.S. Sentencing Commission s early years.2 Later yet, on the twentieth anniversary...

... of law and policy reform. This article begins by introducing the problem, through a set of studies in North Carolina, a state that along with many others has expanded the number and inflexibility of criminal fines and fees. First, a study of a novel North Carolina dataset illustrates the scale...

... disparities. The same failure to truly reform the sentencing landscape can be seen in the most recent federal criminal justice reform measure, the First Step Act of 2018.26 Signed into law in December 2019, it has been touted as the legislation that will bring the most signi cant changes to the criminal...

... of their reimprisonment, to assess the broader question of which path will President Biden and Democrats choose: reform or backlash? Will the White House and Democrats build on the years of bipartisan support for criminal justice reform and push for popular policies, like drug law reform, as President Biden promised...

... practices. As Congress, the Administration, and a new Sentencing Commission focus on criminal justice reform, including possible changes to civilian sentencing law and policy, the recent reforms in military justice sentencing provide an important source of insights worthy of consideration. GUIDELINES...

... Guidelines did. © The Ohio State University sentencing reform rules versus standards principle of legality rule of law common law discretion Legality, Legal Standards, and the Legacy of Marvin Frankel Anyone who reads Marvin Frankel s, Criminal Sentences: Law without Order will quickly...

.... Carlton Reeves. Full session recordings can be found at www.cjhd.org/summit . © The Ohio State University Federal Sentencing Sentencing Reform Alternatives to Incarceration Justice Reform Criminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Conference Summit Judicial Prosecutorial Trauma Recidivism...

... based on aggregative sentencing data, case law, and the defendant’s prior criminal history. These factors, I further argue, provide a model for other appellate courts who hope to engage in more searching substantive reasonableness review. I also acknowledge some limits to the Sixth Circuit’s approach...

... of the Act and the idea that the Act provides just a start on needed federal criminal justice reforms. The clear takeaway is that there is still much work to do both in advocating for the next pieces of federal criminal justice legislation and in seeking to better administer existing laws. But, as we reach...

... Yale Law School student offer their personal reflections about Dan Freed the reformer, the scholar, the colleague, the teacher, and the cherished friend. © The Ohio State University sentencing Yale Law School criminal justice reform Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 jurisprudence In Memoriam...

...Albert W. Alschuler Abstract Although this article applauds many of the criticisms of sentencing practices contained in Judge Marvin Frankel’s influential book, Criminal Sentences: Law Without Order , it maintains that the reforms he championed failed to advance the goal of greater certainty...

...Douglas A. Berman Abstract The landmark First Step Act was given a name intended to signal that additional criminal justice reforms should be a continued focus for federal policy makers. But more than three years later, Congress has yet to pass any new sentencing reform laws. The introduction...

... REPORTER VOL. 35, NO. 1 OCTOBER 2022 9 obstacles to criminal justice reform is the considerable in uence of the law enforcement lobby, comprised of police unions and associations of prosecutors and prison guards.14 Prosecutors often resist changes that would reduce their bargaining power over criminal...

...Ronald Weich Abstract Judge Marvin Frankel’s 1973 book Criminal Sentences: Law Without Order launched a half century of robust debate and scholarship, but also inspired the unsuccessful Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. This article traces the poor decisions in Congress, the judiciary and the Justice...

...The Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice Abstract The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is in the middle of a tremendous reform of criminal justice policy: for the first time in forty years, there is momentum behind commutations of life sentences. People who have served decades behind...