The United States Sentencing Commission’s new guidelines come into effect on November 1, 2026, and may result in shorter ...

The United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously recently to adopt a package of "good government" amendments ...

This article discusses Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines, which went into effect on November 1, 2023, adding a new “zero-point offender” adjustment. The white-collar bar lauded this amendment ...

WEBVTT AND SPANISH. NEXT - ANOTHER BIG STORY ABOUT HOW LONG SOME CRIMINALS HAVE TO STAY BEHIND BARS. HOURS OF DEBATE TODAY AT THE STATE CAPITOL OVER MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES IN NEBRASKA. KETV ...

A 62-year-old Laingsburg-area man already serving prison time for child sex crimes received a sentence Friday that exceeded ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the issue of how to handle a lower court's use of incorrect sentencing guidelines for a deportee convicted of being in the country illegally. Saul ...

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Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Each year, the federal courts sentence tens of thousands of criminal defendants. According to the United States Sentencing ...

Only sentencing guideline aficionados would have paid close attention to yesterday morning’s decision in Beckles v. United States, which came more than three months after the oral argument. In Beckles ...

A Supreme Court judge has invited Bermuda’s Sentencing Guidelines Committee to consider creating a framework to help ...