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Judicial Fact-Finding and Sentence Enhancements in a World of Guilty Pleas

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The Sentence Imposed Versus the Statutory Maximum: Repairing the Armed Career Criminal Act

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Forum: The Implicit Racial Bias in Sentencing: The Next Frontier

longer sentences to Jewish defendants than Christian defendants. There were no significant differences in how these judges sentenced White as

Forum: Excessive Sentencing Reviews: Eighth Amendment Substance and Procedure

adjudication pressures on the accused to forego jury trials in order “to avoid the thing they fear most: being sent to prison”). Notably, plea agreements

News: Molina-Martinez and Sentencing Error as Loss of Chance

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Forum: On Estimating Disparity and Inferring Causation: Sur-Reply to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Staff

with the conclusions of two U.S. Sentencing Commission reports. The Commission found that the sentence gap between comparable black and white men had

Forum: Why Judges Matter at Sentencing: A Reply to Starr and Rehavi

2011 as part of a longer, more comprehensive report on federal sentencing released in December 2012. The Commission found that these average sentence

Is History Repeating Itself? Sentencing Young American Muslims in the War on Terror

For example, Sabri Benkahla, who received a ten-year sentence for making false statements to a grand jury and the FBI, was sent to a CMU, denied contact

Appellate Review of Sentencing

Guideline-specified facts, plug those facts into a Guideline calculation, and then mechanically impose a Guideline sentence. Instead of sentencing-by-the

What Feeney Got Right: Why Courts of Appeals Should Review Sentencing Departures De Novo

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