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...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University Determining the Sentencing Range and the Sentence Within Range: Model Sentencing Guidelines §§1.2-1.8 Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.2 General Application Instructions Except as specifically directed, the provisions of these Model Sentencing...

...Kim Steven Hunt; Andrew Peterson Recidivism Among Offenders Receiving Retroactive Sentence Reductions: The 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment In 2007, the United States Sentencing Commission amended the Drug Quantity Table in section 2D1.1 of the sentencing guidelines1 for offenses involving crack...

... © The Ohio State University JAMES C. DUFF Director ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS WASHINGTON, D.C. 20544 MATERIALS FROM BUREAU OF PRISONS CONCERNING SENTENCE REDUCTIONS FOR CRACK OFFENDERS To: February 21, 2008 MEMORANDUM Judges, United States District Courts United States...

...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...

...Morten Holmboe © The Ohio State University The Norwegian Youth Sentence: Punishment in the Best Interest of the Child? MORTEN HOLMBOE* I. Introduction: Young Offenders under Norwegian Criminal Law During the autumn of 2014, a young male and a younger female had vaginal intercourse six or seven...

...Morten Holmboe © The Ohio State University Alternative Sentence of Imprisonment for Unpaid Fines: Are the Rules Compatible with the Aims of the Norwegian Criminal Justice System? MORTEN HOLMBOE* I. Introduction: The Problem of Unpaid Fines When a person (over eighteen years old at the time...

...Elizabeth Berger; Kent S. Scheidegger Abstract In response to prison overcrowding concerns in recent years, many U.S. officials have undertaken efforts to reduce sentence lengths for certain crimes. However, it is unclear how these changes affect recidivism rates. Among the research...

...Gerald G. Gaes; Julia Laskorunsky © The Ohio State University The Relationship Between Sentence Length, Time Served, and State Prison Population Levels GERALD G. GAES Criminal Justice Consultant, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice JULIA LASKORUNSKY Research Scholar, Robina...

...Margaret Colgate Love © The Ohio State University Sentence Reduction Mechanisms in a Determinate Sentencing System: Report of the Second Look Roundtable Introduction Overview of Issues The Second Look Roundtable I. Reinvigorating the Pardon Power and Improving Its Administration II. Existing...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University A Challenge to the Rationale for General Economic Crime Sentence Increases Following Sarbanes-Oxley: Letter of Frank Bowman to U.S. Sentencing Commission February 10, 2003 Frank O. Bowman III is the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law at Indiana...

...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...

...John Gleeson © The Ohio State University Sentence Bargaining under the Guidelines Originally published in Vol. 8, No. 6 (1996) of Federal Sentencing Reporter JOHN GLEESON Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York Introduction A recent survey conducted by the Probation...

...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...

...July 17, 2019 Remarks from Hon. Letitia James Rewriting the Sentence: Summit on Alternatives to Incarceration July 17, 2019 28 Gary Apfel Letitia James is honoring us with her perspective on New York s progress in criminal justice reform, touching on bail, parole, cannabis, and paths away from...

...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz Re ections on Rewriting the Sentence HANNA LIEBMAN DERSHOWITZ Aleph Institute I. Introduction Seventeen-year-old Michelle stepped onto the stage at the 2019 Rewriting the Sentence summit, and the gazes of some four hundred attendees followed her. She took a deep breath...

...Michael M. O’Hear When Voters Choose the Sentence: The Drug Policy Initiatives in Arizona, California, Ohio, and Michigan Direct democracy has played an increasingly important role in state sentencing policy over the past decade. In the 1990Õs, voters in several states adopted three-strikes...

... offenders accountable for their crimes without the unintended negative justice outcomes. The Fines and Fees Initiative seeks to ameliorate the negative consequences that criminal justice debt may have on individuals, communities, and criminal justice systems. © The Ohio State University sentencing...

...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz; Rachel Van Etten The Center for Justice and Human Dignity hosted the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit at George Washington Law October 17-18, 2023. This article reviews the presenters’ key comments and the leading insights set forth throughout the Summit regarding...

...Colette Peters Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters spoke at the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit on October 17, 2023. Transcribed remarks include the Bureau of Prisons’ alignment with the criminal legal reform community in thinking differently about the experience of incarceration...

...Mary Price © The Ohio State University The Other Safety Valve: Sentence Reduction Motions under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) MARY PRICE General Counsel, Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM). While many people are familiar with the Guidelines safety valve, a lesser-known provision...