Jenny E. Carroll | October 16, 2020 | Sentencing
Jenny E. Carroll of University of the University of Alabama School of Law has posted Beyond Bail (Florida Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: From the proliferation of community bail funds to the implementation of new risk assessment tools to the...
Student Training & Education in Public Service (STEPS) | October 6, 2020 | Sentencing
Facts:2.3 million prisoners: That is how many Americans are currently incarcerated, but that’s’ not the whole picture. Americans “go to jail” 10.6 million times a year.#1 in the world: With only 5% of the world’s population, America holds ¼ of the world’s incarcerated...
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...
