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...Matthew Gluck; Jack Goldsmith Abstract Since the nineteenth century, presidents have largely relied on recommendations from the Office of the Pardon Attorney when granting pardons and commutations. The current process for making clemency recommendations usually takes more than a year...

...Nkechi Taifa, Esq. © The Ohio State University Clemency: An Inside Story from a Progressive Advocate NKECHI TAIFA, ESQ.* Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice, Open Society Foundations In 1998, I authored an article for the Federal Sentencing Reporter (FSR), Re ections From the Frontlines1...

...Amy Ralston Povah © The Ohio State University Clemency Initiative Favored Male Repeat Offenders Over Women with No Prior Convictions Nothing sums up President Obama s Clemecy Initiative1 better than Charles Dickins passage from a Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst...

...Brittany K. Barnett © The Ohio State University My Experience with Clemency and the Power of Hope BRITTANY K. BARNETT* Attorney and Criminal Justice Reform Advocate A de ning time in my life can be attributed to a 7-digit number, 1374671 this number was assigned to my mother by the Texas...

...J.P. “Sandy” Ogilvy © The Ohio State University The Role and Experience of Law Students and Law Schools in Clemency Project 2014 The response of lawyers to the call to volunteer with Clemency Project 2014 was phenomenal. More than 3000 individuals from over 800 law rms, law schools...

...Erin R. Collins © The Ohio State University Clemency and the Administration of Hope In 2014, President Obama announced his intention to restor[e] fundamental ideals of justice and fairness to the criminal justice system by exercising his executive clemency power to commute sentences...

...Paul J. Larkin, Jr. © The Ohio State University Delegating Clemency At noon on January 20, 2017, President Barack Obama became private citizen Barack Obama when Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation s 45th President. Since then, policymakers, historians, and academics began the process...

...Margaret Colgate Love © The Ohio State University Obama s Clemency Legacy: An Assessment Shortly before the end of his term, President Obama published an article in the Harvard Law Review discussing his efforts to promote criminal justice reform. In it he described an ambitious approach...

...Molly M. Gill © The Ohio State University Clemency for Lifers: The Only Road Out Is the Road Not Taken Along with the increased use of sentencing guidelines, mandatory minimums, and truth-in-sentencing laws that limit or abolish parole, life without parole (LWOP) sentences have flourished...

...P.S. Ruckman, Jr. © The Ohio State University The Obama Administration: Breaking Records in a Broken Clemency System Nietzsche once observed that, occasionally, when a man talks about himself, the aim is to conceal as much about himself as he wishes to reveal. That witty insight seemed wildly...

...Paula B. McCarron © The Ohio State University After the Gavel Falls: An Introduction to the Department of Defense Clemency and Parole Process I refer to those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance...

...George W. Bush © The Ohio State University Statement by the President on Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby s request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury...

...Thomas Cochran, Esq. © The Ohio State University Statement of Thomas Cochran, Esq. before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials THOMAS COCHRAN, ESQ. Assistant Federal Public Defender Federal...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University Written Statement of Professor Douglas A. Berman before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials DOUGLAS A. BERMAN William B. Saxbe Designated...

...Molly M. Gill © The Ohio State University Clemency Today, Reform Tomorrow MOLLY M. GILL Commutations Project Director, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) Dear Senators McCain and Obama: We know you have been dreaming of it for years: waking up one day and discovering you ve become...

... Fair And Independent Experts in Clemency Act, H.R.6234 117th Congress 1st Session To improve the governmental process for recommending applications for clemency, and for other purposes. In the House of Representatives Ms. PRESSLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee...

... Bush, Pressley, Jeffries Unveil FIX Clemency Act (press release) December 10, 2021 Washington, DC Today, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) joined grassroots...

...Mark Osler Abstract As other second-chance sentencing mechanisms are considered and developed, the reform of federal clemency remains important. As part of broader reforms, clemency can—if revived—serve functions that other pathways cannot. It offers a singular breadth and scope, limited only...

...Amy Ralston Povah; Walt Pavlo The OLC Memo Was a Step in the Right Direction, but Federal Prisoners, on Home Con nement due to the CARES Act and in Prison, Need Mercy in the Form of Clemency The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, passed by Congress and signed...

...Daniel T. Kobil © The Ohio State University Reviving Presidential Clemency in Cases of Unfortunate Guilt DANIEL T. KOBIL Professor of Law, Capital University Law School In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail,1 King Arthur and his intrepid band of English knights seek the Holy Grail from...