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...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...

...Jessica A. Roth © The Ohio State University Rehaif v. United States: Once Again, a Gun Case Makes Surprising Law I. Introduction Gun cases often make surprising law,1 and the U.S. Supreme Court s June 2019 decision in Rehaif v. United States2 is no exception. Rehaif involved a defendant...

...Brian Elderbroom; Julia Durnan © The Ohio State University Reclassi ed: State-Drug Law Reforms to Reduce Felony Convictions and Increase Second Chances Recognizing the harm caused by felony convictions and the importance of targeting limited correctional resources more ef ciently, state...

...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...

...Laura I. Appleman © The Ohio State University Toward a Common Law of Sentencing: Gall, Kimbrough, and the Search for Reasonableness They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed...

...Roger K. Przybylski; Kim English © The Ohio State University Richard P. Kern s Vision and Advocacy for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Criminal Justice System: The Foundation for Building an Interface between Social Science and the Law Richard P. Kern made many contributions to sentencing...

... the need for the sentence in order to avoid unwanted sentencing disparities. It is a condensed version of an article that was originally published in the Cardozo Law Review in 2019. © The Ohio State University Jack B. Weinstein Judge Weinstein sentencing consistency federal sentencing guidelines...

... is in partnering with state corrections and supervision departments to provide real-time feedback and data visualization tools. © The Ohio State University recidiviz data mandatory minimums real-time data policy impact modeling corrections supervision Good Data, Good Law JOHN TILLEY Head of State...

...May 17, 2017 © The Ohio State University Remarks of Judge William Pryor at Scalia Law School, George Mason University MAY 17, 2017 In a May 2017 keynote speech at a conference entitled Behind the Bench: The Past, Present, and Future of Federal Sentencing, co-sponsored by the Charles Koch...

...United States Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University Report to the Congress: Downward Departures From the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (in response to section 401(m) of Public Law 108-21) October 8, 2003 Editor s Note: Subsection (m) of the enacted Feeney Amendment, entitled...

...Michael Romano © The Ohio State University Divining the Spirit of California s Three Strikes Law The extraordinary scope and severity of California s Three Strikes Law has been the subject of much commentary and criticism. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recently criticized the politics...

...Rachel Muthoga; Robert Bowman © The Ohio State University A Brief Survey of Sentencing Law and Its Practice in Kenya Kenya s criminal sentencing regime benefits from the existence of sound legal principles ensconced in its Constitution and Criminal Procedure Code, and at least the schematic...

...Gulazat Tursun © The Ohio State University Exploration of Probation in Chinese Criminal Law Gulazat Tursun Associate Professor, Law School of Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China Chinese criminal law has stipulated five main punishments, as well as four supplementary punishments that can be used...

...Michael M. O’Hear; Darren Wheelock © The Ohio State University Public Attitudes Toward Punishment, Rehabilitation, and Reform: Lessons from the Marquette Law School Poll Public support for tough sentencing policies rose sharply in the United States in the 1970s and remained high until the late...

...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 Speech Presented at Brennan Center for Justice, New York University Law School Thank you, Jim [Johnson], for those kind words; for your friendship over the many years we ve known one another since we served together in the Clinton Administration...

...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...

... the districts and within districts, with some courts following the United States Sentencing Guidelines regularly and others following it rarely. Was Booker the fix? This article describes Booker ’s place in the history of federal sentencing law and policy and concludes that Booker doesn’t seem to have been...

...James E. Felman; Sim Lake; Ellen S. Moore © The Ohio State University Comments of Practitioners' AdvisoryGroup, Criminal Law Committee, and Probation OfficersAdvisoryGroup on Proposed Changes to "Loss" Tables Editor'sNote:AftertheSentencingCommissionpublished itsthreealternativeproposalsfor...

...Sim Lake © The Ohio State University Criminal Law Committee Comments on Proposed Changes to "Loss" Definition Editor's Note: In January 2001, the U.S. Sentencing Commissionpublished twoproposedredefinitionosftheterm "loss" used infraud and theft sentencing under U.S.S.G. Sections 2B1.1...