Compassionate release motions effectively have become parole or sentence review hearings, a former federal prosecutor writes.

A cornerstone of the federal sentencing guidelines is the concept of ... Which brings us to acquitted conduct. In United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (1997), the Court, in a per curiam opinion ...

President-elect Donald Trump received the first ever criminal sentencing for a former or incoming U.S. president on Friday, an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump will get no prison time or ...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday evening cleared the way for President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to go forward on Friday morning. In a brief unsigned order issued just after 7 p.m., ...