I have just finished listening to today's hearing as part of the state court sentencing in Trump v. New York, at the end of which he received the expected sentence of "unconditional discharge." The ...

The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by William Berry III now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The United States Supreme Court has applied the Eighth Amendment in ...

Anyone and everyone following Second Amendment litigation since the Supreme Court's landmark Bruen ruling knows that it is not a question of whether, but just a matter of when, the Justices will take ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper now available via SSRN authored by Olwyn Conway. Here is its abstract: Restorative justice is a means of responding to harm — including criminal ...

The Sentencing Project has long provided the most extensive coverage and data on life sentences in the US, and its latest major report on this front was released today under the title "A Matter of ...

The question in the title of this post is the subtitle of this new Harper's Magazine article titled "The Forever Cure." Here is an excerpt: As a wave of civil-commitment laws passed in the Nineties ...

Last week, as noted here, the fully Third Circuit again found the federal felon-in-possesion criminal ban to be unconstitutional as applied to Byran Range. This outcome, as well as the 13-2 vote (with ...

As reported in this notable new NBC News piece, "[t]wo prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them ...

With help from a colleague, I can report on significant news relating to the US Sentencing Commission that goes along with the new Congress. As reported in this post, back in August 4, 2022, the ...

As reported in this AP piece, "a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money criminal case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Eric Fish and Chesa Boudin now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The American criminal justice system faces a crisis of ...

I have been thinking for a few days about a post highlighting positive crime trends in 2024, but I did not want to "jinx" the positive story until 2024 was fully complete. Depressingly, it turned out ...