White-Collar Felon Registries, Hester Prynne and The Drive-By Truckers
Although one must admire the historicist sensibilities of a state legislature that just reinstated the firing squad as a methodology for execution, the Utah legislature’s passage...
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty: Judge Rakoff, Eddie Coyle, Albert Camus and Sweet Dreams of Oppression
If they give awards for “Best White-Collar Article of The Year,” I wish to nominate one. And it’s not even, strictly speaking, an article only...
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...
From our friends at the White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Quick collection of white-collar news from the White Collar Crime Prof Blog: Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner Sentenced to One...
White-collar news stories via White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Good roundup of white-collar news stories from Ellen Podgor and White Collar Crime Prof Blog: Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner...
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...