Category: Sentencing

Conservatives and Mandatory Minimum Federal Sentences

From Professor Berman’s “Sentencing Law and Policy Blog,” why conservatives should support the effort to reform mandatory minimums in non-violent federal sentences: the Heritage Foundation...

It’s Only A Fine

One would expect fines In civil and criminal enforcement actions to bear some relationship to both the offensive conduct and the statute that authroizes the...

Good People, Bad Acts and Intent

From Professor Peter J. Henning, more on the “why” of white-collar offenses:  When Good People Do Bad Things: That is the conundrum of many white-collar...

Why’d He Do It?

Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...

Alabama’s New Sentencing Guidelines

A good summary from Sentencing Law and Policy Blog about Alabama’s new sentencing guidelines: I find it so very telling that when states create sentencing...

Mine Blast Plea: Dust, Documents and Deaths

As the  article (via @Law360) points out, Ex-Massey Exec Gets 42 Months In Mine Blast Case this Massey mining manager pleaded to “pre-notifying” about MSHA...