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... © The Ohio State University Booker and Durbin Introduce Legislation Aimed at Increasing Membership within U.S. Sentencing Commission (press release) Currently, the Commission fails to include representation from the public defender system U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Dick Durbin (D-IL...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University U.S. Sentencing Commission to Implement First Step Act with Focus on Compassionate Release (press release) Commission Also Sets Other Priorities for the 2022 2023 Amendment Year The United States Sentencing Commission today unanimously...

... Sentencing Commission unanimously voted to publish proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines. The public meeting afforded the current commissioners the opportunity to work together for the last time, as the terms of Chief Judge Patti B. Saris (Chair of the Commission), Judge Charles R. Breyer...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University E D I T O R S O b ser v a tio n s Lots of Advice on Lots of Topics for the New (Post-Booker) U.S. Sentencing Commission Douglas A. Berman FSR Editor & Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Just before...

... on unreliable evidence. . . . It seems clear that the unfairness inhering in the present system should be remedied, and that a variety of tools are at the disposal of conscientious courts, legislators and commissioners.6 It is far past time for the Commission to reevaluate the due process protections (or lack...

...Eric L. Sevigny © The Ohio State University The U.S. Sentencing Commission Should Make Its Special Data Collections Readily Available to Outside Researchers As authorized by Congress under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the United States Sentencing Commission is charged with collecting...

...J. Matthew Wright © The Ohio State University Urging Retroactivity for New Guidelines from the Sentencing Commission J. Matthew Wright Research and Writing Specialist, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Texas I would advise the Commission to make two amendments...

...Paul J. Hofer © The Ohio State University The Commission Defends an Ailing Hypothesis: Does Judicial Discretion Increase Demographic Disparity? I. Introduction In Part E of its Booker Report,1 the U. S. Sentencing Commission presents the latest of its repeated analyses of Demographic...

...Todd Haugh Abstract The United States Sentencing Commission has drawn much criticism over the years. Stakeholders have impugned the institutional structure of the Commission and the operation of the Guidelines, and they’ve even attacked the Commissioners themselves. While many of the criticisms...

... also poses the least risk of reoffending. While the factors we suggest are not a perfect proxy for dangerousness, they are a reasonable proxy based on the Commission s own research, and identifying them will not require new hearings. Judge Saris, Commissioners Our goal at the Department of Justice...

...Nkechi Taifa Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Convenes Historic Hearing On March 3, 2006, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convened its first ever hearing on the impact of mandatory minimum sentences in the federal criminal justice system of the United States. Spurred...

...Paul G. Cassell © The Ohio State University Statement of Paul G. Cassell before the United States Sentencing Commission PAUL G . CASSELL United States District Judge for the District of Utah Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah Feb. 15, 2005 Editor s Note...

...Paul G. Cassell © The Ohio State University Statement of Paul G. Cassell before the United States Sentencing Commission PAUL G . CASSELL United States District Judge for the District of Utah Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah March 15, 2006 Editor s Note...

.... There is hereby established the New York State Commission on Sentencing Reform ( Commission 2. The Commission shall consist of eleven members appointed by the Governor, including: (a) the Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, the Chairman of the Board of Parole, the Commissioner of the Division...

...Alice Fisher © The Ohio State University Letter from Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher to Sentencing Commission Chairman Ricardo Hinojosa Regarding Retroactivity of Crack Guidelines Amendments ALICE FISHER Assistant United States Attorney General November l, 2007 Editor s Note...

... in the public record that would shed light on the Commission s reasons for making these amendments retroactive id. at 5 nn. 23 & 24 (speculating, based on a Commissioner s comment at a meeting, that prison overcrowding which is not listed in U.S.SG. §1B1.10 may also be a factor in the retroactivity decision...

...David Yellen © The Ohio State University The Sentencing Commission Takes on Crack, Again We may be entering a new era of drug sentencing policy. For the first time, an effort by the United States Sentencing Commission to reduce the disparity in treatment between crack and powder cocaine...

... the empirical basis for such a categorization. Congress should commission empirical studies from the Commission before it legislates based on perception. Former Commissioner O Neill focuses on the opposite end of the Guidelines criminal history computation CHC I. He notes that the Guidelines make...

...F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. © The Ohio State University Chairman s Statement to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, House Judiciary Committee, October 12, 2011 Hearing on Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years...

...Judge Patti B. Saris © The Ohio State University Testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, House Judiciary Committee, October 12, 2011 Hearing on Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years after U.S. v...