Via this new substack post by Chris Geidner, I see that Attorney General Merrick Garland sent this letter to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to order rescinding the the federal execution ...

I only had a chance to listen to a small portion of the hearings today in the Senate Judiciary Committee involving Prez-Elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. What ...

The title of this post is the title of this essay authored by Barry Latzer available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: A recent report on reincarceration by the Council of State Governments Justice ...

Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal handed down an interesting ruling late last week in Crist v. Florida, No. 5D2022-2966 (5th App. Fla. Jan. 10, 2025) (available here). This press piece explains ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Thompson v. US, which has the potential to be a major white-collar criminal case because it could narow (or expand) how federal criminal law defines a ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hewitt (et al.) v. U.S. to consider this formal question: "Whether the First Step Act’s sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally ...

The title of this post is the title of this recent New York Law Journal essay by Paul Shechtman. The piece merits a full read, as it highlights recent developments on acquitted conduct sentencing and ...

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 day after Donald Trump was elected to serve a second term in the Oval Office, I asked in this post "How might Prez-Elect Trump operationalize his promise to pardon January 6 defendants?". Though a ...

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 ...

The day after Donald Trump was elected to serve a second term in the Oval Office, I asked in this post "How might Prez-Elect Trump operationalize his promise to pardon January 6 defendants?". Perhaps ...