The Court understands that sentence disparities between codefendants are often ordinary. But when that disparity is as large as it is here and when the criminal conduct of the defendant who received ...

A Paulding County courtroom was filled with emotion as a judge sentenced a man to 475 years in prison for dog fighting and animal cruelty, marking the maximum penalty possible under the law.

The question in the title of this post is prompted in part by a notable opinion from last week authored by US District Judge Gary Brown in US v. Andrews, 20-CR-546 (SDNY Jan. 28, 2025) ( available ...

It is this destructive practice of sentencing deception that has been in large part the motivation for the “truth in sentencing” movement examined in Part IV. In the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the ...

Erlinger now makes plain what Apprendi signaled years ago — the exception for the fact of a prior conviction is questionable to begin with, and as a result, it must be applied narrowly. In short, the ...