Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law
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recent posts
- Anyone have any distinct views on who Joe Biden should pick as US Attorney General?
- What data in the federal system would indicate the Biden Administration is drawing down the federal drug war?
- A final (too brief) foray into what metrics and data matter for assessing a sentencing system
- Reactions to our look behind the robes with federal sentencing judges?
- Are there any “offender characteristics” that you think must be considered at sentencing? If so, how?
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Category: Working on white papers
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The FIRST STEP Act, which is fully titled the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, was signed by President Donald Trump into law on December 21, 2018. Many have rightly called this law the biggest federal criminal justice reform legislation in a generation, and yet others have rightly called this law…
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Much to my chagrin, I fear this week our class will only be able to meet on Wednesday (4/8), and I fear that much of that class will involve going over current events and making sure the last few weeks of class are productive. To that end, I have two potential projects for students to…
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CLASS PLANS: Today and next Tuesday we will be discussing: (1) Tiernan & USSG 3E1.1 & Pepper and sentencing discounts for pleas and cooperation, (2) Problem 5-4 & Pepper and sentencing based on offender characteristics, and then (3) McMillan & Blakely & Problem 6-1 (in casebook). A timely and interesting circuit ruling that touches on…
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This post is intended to provide a place and space for questions about the final white-paper assignment. I will, of course, answer questions about the assignment in our final class and via personal e-mails, but I encourage students to feel comfortable asking questions here so that I can provide answers to questions in a forum…
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After a long few weeks to finish grading and to deal with other commitments that stacked up in the Spring, I am now ready to get serious about polishing, publishing and propagating all of the great white papers that were produced for this course. I hope at least a few of you are interested, and…
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I have reviewed all the submitted white-paper outlines, and I am in the midst of preparing class-wide substantive feedback and suggestions. In this post, let me just detail some of my initial reactions and thoughts: 1. Thanks for providing such interesting Spring Break reading. I really enjoyed seeing how everyone approached this novel assignment, and…
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I am getting very excited about the white papers upon seeing the diverse and interesting selections of officials to whom you all (tentatively) plan to write. I hope you are as excited about this part of the class as I am. Though I will discuss the particulars of the papers more next week, it is…
Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law 