When imposing a sentence, federal judges lean heavily on the range of sentences available to them under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines’ Sentencing Table. A number of factors such as the ...
Professor Alison Siegler, Founding Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, had an opportunity to help shape the future of federal drug sentencing ...
In the interim, federal prosecutors and defense attorneys will argue how to best apply recently changed sentencing guidelines. Oral arguments for that question are slated for Feb. 20, and could ...
A judge has ruled that sentencings for five former Memphis police officers convicted of federal charges in the beating death ...