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...Michael M. Mihm; Nancy Gertner © The Ohio State University Teaching Judges How to Sentence Originally published in Vol. 11, No. 2 (1998) of Federal Sentencing Reporter MICHAEL M. MIHM Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, CD Illinois NANCY GERTNER District Judge, U.S. District Court, D Mass We...

...Hon. Jack B. Weinstein © The Ohio State University MEMORANDUM HON. JACK B. WEINSTEIN As part of this Issue dedicated to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein (EDNY), we are pleased to reprint this memorandum authored by Judge Weinstein. It originally appeared in the March/April 1993 issue of FSR...

...Justice Michael P. Donnelly; Judge Gene A. Zmuda; Judge Pierre H. Bergeron Abstract We are Ohio state court judges with actual experience in imposing and/or reviewing criminal felony sentences. We are unaware of any expressed objection by Ohio’s judiciary to having more relevant information...

...David Burnham; Susan Long © The Ohio State University Tracking Judges DAVID BURNHAM & SUSAN LONG Co-directors, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. David Burnham, an investigative writer and former New York Times reporter, has focused on local, state, and federal enforcement issues...

... © The Ohio State University Memorandum from Judges Murphy and Lake Addressing Data Collection Requirements June 17, 2003 Editor s Note: Subsection (h) of the enacted Feeney Amendment, entitled Improved Data Collection, requires the chief judge of each federal district to ensure...

... © The Ohio State University Huge Differences in the Number of Persons Sentenced by Individual Judges Where Does Your Judge Rank? Robert C. Brack was con rmed as a judge for the federal district of New Mexico on July 14, 2003. He reports that in the ensuing years almost 12 of them now he has...

... © The Ohio State University Federal Prosecutors, Not Judges, Decide Whether Defendants Serve a Five-Year Mandatory Minimum in Certain Child Pornography Prosecutions: Further Cause for Repeal and Reform Editor s Note: The author is an attorney currently under suspension who practiced...

... © The Ohio State University Results of Survey of United States District Judges January 2010 through March 2010 Introduction The Sentencing Reform Act of 19841 significantly changed the manner in which offenders convicted of federal crimes are punished by eliminating the system...

...Wes Reber Porter © The Ohio State University Federal Judges Need Competing Information to Rival the Misleading Guidelines at Sentencing WES REBER PORTER* Associate Professor Golden State University School of Law Federal district judges are stuck in a bad marriage with the U.S. Sentencing...

...Judge Lynn Adelman; Jon Deitrich © The Ohio State University Booker, Judges, and Mass Incarceration JUDGE LYNN ADELMAN U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin JON DEITRICH Law Clerk, Judge Lynn Adelman; Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School The most pressing...

...Susan B. Long; David Burnham © The Ohio State University TRAC Report: Examining Current Federal Sentencing Practices: A National Study of Differences Among Judges SUSAN B. LONG Co-Director, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Associate Professor of Managerial...

...Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church © The Ohio State University Letter to Honorable Judges of the 17th Judicial District Regarding Public Health and Safety Preparations Judges of the 17th Judicial District 1425 N. Courthouse Road Arlington...

...Michael Edmund O'Neill © The Ohio State University Surveying Article III Judges Perspectives on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Anniversaries are often cause for celebration. They mark the passing of an event that has some signiÞcance in our lives. For federal criminal law practitioners...

... © The Ohio State University Provisions of Proposed JUDGES Act EditorÕs Note: The following provides the full text of the JUDGES Act that was introduc ed by Senator Kennedy and others in an effort to repeal those provisions of the Feeney Amendment that function to limit judicial authority...

... © The Ohio State University Statements of Senators Kennedy and Leahy Supporting the JUDGES Act EditorÕs Note: The following statements are the remarks of Senators Kenne dy and Leahy in support of the JUDGES Act, which seeks to repeal many of the provisions of the Feeney Amendment...

...George Lardner, Jr.; Margaret Colgate Love © The Ohio State University Mandatory Sentences and Presidential Mercy: The Role of Judges in Pardon Cases, 1790 1850 GEORGE LARDNER, Jr. & MARGARET COLGATE LOVE George Lardner, Jr. has been a reporter with the Washington Post since 1963. He...

...Russell P. Butler © The Ohio State University What Practitioners and Judges Need to Know Regarding Crime Victims Participatory Rights in Federal Sentencing Proceedings The United States Contress recently enacted and the President signed into law what could be the most dramatic change...

...Carolin E. Guentert; Ryan H. Gerber Abstract This article examines how Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who served as a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York for 53 years, approached the issue of consistency in sentencing after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines were rendered advisory...

...Sentencing Resource Counsel Project, Federal Public Defenders © The Ohio State University Sentencing Resource Counsel Project, Federal Public Defenders TRAC s Report Claiming Surprising Judge-to-Judge Variation Fails to Compare Similar Cases, Relies on Poor Quality Data, Uses an Unreliable...

... Acting Chair Judge Charles Breyer, Incoming Chair Judge Carlton W. Reeves Applaud Senate Con rmation of New Commissioners (press release) The US Senate has con rmed a group of seven bipartisan members to serve on the US Sentencing Commission, providing the independent judicial branch agency...