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... © The Ohio State University 05.FSR18.2_106-119.qxd 2/23/06 2:51 PM Page 106 Letter from Federal Defenders to U.S. Sentencing Commission about Federal Sentencing since United States v. Booker Honorable Ricardo H. Hinojosa United States Sentencing Commission One Columbus Circle, N.E. Suite 2...

...Zachary C. Bolitho Abstract It has been approximately seventeen years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in United States v. Booker . In Booker , the Court transformed the Federal Sentencing Guidelines from mandatory to advisory. Nonetheless, the front-end of federal sentencing...

... Berman, is just this kind of research. It provides insights not just into a unique group of persons convicted in the federal criminal justice system for controlled substance violations but also into broader issues facing federal sentencing: unwarranted sentencing disparities, unwarranted severity...

...Nora V. Demleitner; Jon M. Sands EDITORS' OBSERVATIONS Overlooked Areas of Federal Sentencing: Federal Enclaves, Indian Country, Transfer of U.S. Prisoners fromAbroad NORAV.DEMLEITNER Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter JONM.SANDS ^^ Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona X jt...

...Jon M. Sands; Robert J. McWhirter © The Ohio State University 04.FSR18.2_102-105.qxd 2/23/06 2:51 PM Page 102 Federal Sentencing Adventures in Jurisdictional Wonderland: Blakely, Booker, and Special Federal Jurisdiction Issues JON M. SANDS & ROBERT J. MCWHIRTER Jon M. Sands is the Federal...

...Sonja B. Starr © The Ohio State University Using Sentencing to Clean Up Criminal Procedure: Incorporating Remedial Sentence Reduction into Federal Sentencing Law On September 24, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa issued its opinion in United States v. Dicus...

...Alan Vinegrad © The Ohio State University The New Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The Sentencing Commission s Response to the Feeney Amendment ALAN VINEGRAD Partner at Covington & Burling in New York and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In April 2003, Congress...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University News Release: U.S. Sentencing Commission Holds Last Public Meeting of Current Commission, Proposes 2017 Amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION Washington, DC December 9, 2016 Today the United States...

...Stephen R. Sady Abstract This article addresses one of the most difficult areas of federal sentencing law: concurrent and consecutive sentences in dual state and federal prosecutions. Prior to the Sentencing Reform Act, the Supreme Court in Ponziset out the norm of full comity and mutual respect...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Dispatches from Two Fronts of the Battle for Sentencing Reform: Parole and Federal Sentencing Legislation FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law University of Missouri School of Law...

...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...

...Matthew S. Miner © 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...

...Stephen R. Sady Retroactive amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, such as Amendment 821 to the calculation of criminal history, confer discretion on judges to reduce sentences when the Sentencing Commission determines that a guideline is overly harsh. The statute on retroactive...

... hearing and inviting us to testify today regarding the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Blakely v. Washington on the current and future operation of the federal sentencing guidelines. The Blakely decision represents potentially the most significant case affecting the federal guidelines...

...Stephen Breyer © The Ohio State University Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited Originally published in Vol. 11, No. 4 (1999) of Federal Sentencing Reporter JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States Presented to the University of Nebraska College of Law...

...Kate Stith; José A. Cabranes © The Ohio State University To Fear Judging No More: Recommendations for the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Originally published in Vol. 11, No. 4 (1999) of Federal Sentencing Reporter KATE STITH Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a member...

...Marc Miller; Daniel J. Freed © The Ohio State University The Unful lled Potential for Independent Federal Sentencing Research Originally published in Vol. 6, No. 1 (1993) of Federal Sentencing Reporter Congress designed the Sentencing Commission to be a new kind of agency, guided by research...

...Jennifer A. Segal © The Ohio State University Family Ties and Federal Sentencing: A Critique of the Literature JENNIFER A. SEGAL Judicial Fellow at the United States Sentencing Commission; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky. The views of the author do...

... as notes for a discussion at the March 2, 1992 meeting of the Sentencing Institute for the Second and Eighth Circuits in Lexington, Kentucky. © The Ohio State University A Trial Judge s Re ections on Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines HON. JACK B. WEINSTEIN United States District...