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... © 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...

...Jamie Fellner © The Ohio State University An Offer You Can t Refuse: How U.S. Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty JAMIE FELLNER U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch [Reprinted below are the Summary and Recommendations included in An Offer You Can t Refuse: How US Federal...

... © The Ohio State University 10.FSR17.4_282-284.qxd 7/12/05 1:45 PM Page 282 Memorandum to Federal Prosecutors from U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General January 28, 2005 I. INTRODUCTION The past few months have been a time of change and uncertainty in federal...

...James M. Cole © The Ohio State University DOJ Memo to Prosecutors: Department Policy on Early Disposition or Fast-Track Programs JAMES M. COLE Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 53 56, ISSN 1053-9867, electronic ISSN 1533...

...Nora V. Demleitner © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Revisiting the Role of Federal Prosecutors in Times of Mass Imprisonment NORA V. DEMLEITNER Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Virginia Senior Fellow in Interdisciplinary...

...Andrew D. Leipold © The Ohio State University Criminal Dockets, Sentencing, and the Changing Role of Federal Prosecutors I. Introduction If the role of the federal prosecutor has in fact been changing (as the theme of this Issue suggests), that would be big news. United States Attorneys...

...U.S. Attorney General © The Ohio State University Memorandum to All Federal Prosecutors, General Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas, and Sentencing Our justice system places enormous responsibility on federal prosecutors and vests them with " broad discretion to enforce the Nation...

...U.S. Attorney General © The Ohio State University Memorandum to All Federal Prosecutors, Additional Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas, and Sentencing in Drug Cases General Department policies regarding charging an offense, entering into a plea agreement, and making sentencing...

...Nora V. Demleitner © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS State Prosecutors at the Center of Mass Imprisonment and Criminal Justice Reform NORA V. DEMLEITNER Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, Virginia Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Member...

...Fair and Just Prosecution © The Ohio State University Elected Prosecutors Call for Dramatic Reduction in Incarcerated and Detained Populations in Response to Coronavirus Today over 30 elected prosecutors representing more than 17 million people across the country issued a joint statement...

...Deborah A. Devaney © The Ohio State University A Voice for Victims: What Prosecutors Can Add to the Clemency Process We should have seen President ClintonÕs Inauguration Day 2001 pardons and commutations coming. They were foreshadowed by the clemency that he granted to 16 Puerto Rican...

...David M. Zlotnick © The Ohio State University Federal Prosecutors and the Clemency Power DAVID M. Z L OT N I C K Associate Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Harvard Law School. Professor Zlotnick was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District...

...Lisa Rodriguez © The Ohio State University Criminal Justice Realignment: A Prosecutor s Perspective LISA RODRIGUEZ Deputy District Attorney, San Diego County District Attorney s Of ce Criminal Justice Realignment, or AB 109, was rst introduced to the public and to prosecutors in March of 2011...

...Chiraag Bains © The Ohio State University Looking in the Mirror: The Prosecutor s Role in Ending Mass Incarceration I. Introduction Prosecutors carry a noble mission: to present truth and seek justice, to punish and deter criminal wrongdoing, and to ensure the rule of law. But their actions...

...Lauren-Brooke Eisen; Courtney M. Oliva © The Ohio State University Reimagining a Prosecutor s Role in Sentencing I. Introduction Today, more than 2.1 million people are locked up in county jails and state and federal prisons.1 Decades of research illustrates that mass incarceration tears apart...

...Carissa Byrne Hessick © The Ohio State University Local Prosecutor Elections: Results of a National Study CARISSA BYRNE HESSICK* Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project, University of North Carolina Most local prosecutors are elected. Yet...

...Rory Fleming © The Ohio State University Prosecutor-Driven Second-Look Policies Are Encouraging, but Not a Panacea I. Introduction Summer Stephan, the District Attorney of San Diego, arguably represents a number of contradictions in the current popular image of the American prosecutor...

... and political pressure that affect the elections of judges and prosecutors. However, research has found that lower independence and higher accountability through elections does not necessarily come to bear as expected due to unique characteristics of judicial and prosecutorial elections. Given the potential...

... individualized sentences, transfer authority from neutral judges to partisan prosecutors, and generate racial and economic disparities, with no particular crime control benefits. While bipartisan support for sentencing reform appears to be growing, “law enforcement lobby” (comprised of prosecutors, prison guards...

...Melba V. Pearson Abstract In the wake of the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, many people are posing the question as to what is next for racial and social justice. As the power of the prosecutor has been on display in recent months, what can be done to make sure that accountability is spread...