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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 ...

The president said that with Friday's action he has "now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president ...

Robert Menendez, the disgraced former U.S. senator from New Jersey, should spend at least 15 years in prison following his corruption conviction, after he betrayed voters by putting his office "up for ...

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., ...

As they did during his trial, lawyers for the former senator argued in a court filing that he had been led astray by his wife ...