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constrained and humble approach. A drug case involving the federal Sentencing Guidelines illustrates Justice Thomas’s subordination of his policy preferences
analysis with a baseline sentence established by statutes or guidelines. Cognitive biases will likely cause this initial baseline to frame judges’ thought processes, such that ...
Sentence Enhancements in a World of Guilty Pleas, 110 YALE L.J. 1097 (2001) (criticizing the Supreme Court’s sentencing jurisprudence for failing to
Structural Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims, 25 FED. SENT’G REP. 106 (2012). 23. Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473, 1480 (2010). 24. Frye, 132 S
sentencing of attempts. The Article proposes specific doctrinal recommendations for adjudicat- ing all three kinds of attempts; these recommendations are
criminal record, and usually a jail or prison sentence; past crimes lengthen those sentences; offenders released from prison or jail confront family and
imposing this new sentence, the court refused the de- fendant’s request for a downward variance based on his post-sentencing reha- bilitation, because a
one intervention set forth in California’s new Racial Justice Act: a guarantee of charging or sentencing relief for anyone subjected to police racism
doing emphasized several unique aspects of death penalty jurisprudence.In particular, the Court highlighted the importance of individualized sentencing
sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Every state imposes criminal penalties for HIV exposure. Some states prosecute offenders under general