The issue before the Supreme Court in Koons v. United States concerns the application of 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2), which allows federal judges to modify a prison term for a “defendant who has been ...
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As former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner begins his controversial six-month jail sentence for sexual assault, many are asking whether privilege was a factor in the judge's decision. In a statement to ...
Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...
CROWN POINT | More than 96 percent of Lake Criminal Court defendants charged in drug-related crimes have pleaded their way out of heftier prison time in the last six months, a Times computer-assisted ...