Christopher Slobogin | August 14, 2020 | Sentencing
ABSTRACTThis article proposes the establishment of a federal criminal court system, comprised of separate criminal trial courts, circuit courts of appeal and a National Court of Criminal Appeals, with discretionary review by the Supreme Court. Compared to the 1970s,...
Lauren Klosinski | June 8, 2020 | Sentencing
The article “Mo. Exoneration Bid Tests Limits Of Prosecutorial Power” tells the story of Lamar Johnson, who was convicted of murder in Missouri in 1995. However, both Johnson and St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner agree he did not actually commit the...
Lauren Klosinski | March 30, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
The article “Justices Put Juvenile Sentencing Back On The Front Burner” from Law360 discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case Jones v. Mississippi, which features a petition asking whether the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual...
Lauren Klosinski | March 11, 2020 | Sentencing
Members of the judiciary recently shared their thoughts on the challenge of sentencing in an article for The National Law Journal.The piece, “The Hardest Thing About Being a Judge? What Courts Say About Sentencing,” provides insight into what it’s like to pass...
Brandon Garrett | February 19, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Law Review. Risk assessments are a common feature of federal decisionmaking across a wide variety of areas of regulation. Perhaps the most widely used definition describes risk assessment as “the...
Andrew Sheeler | February 4, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
This article was originally published by The Sacramento Bee on Jan. 28, 2020. The following is an excerpt. A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law, and so she has submitted a bill that would...
