2017

September 18, 2017
Sentencing Commission Announces October 4, 2017 Public Hearing On Synthetic Cathinones
September 15, 2017
New Scholarship Finds Racial Disparity in Plea Bargaining
September 14, 2017
Kansas Federal Defender Highlights Supreme Court Case That Will Decide If A Warrant Is Required For Historical Cell Site Information
September 14, 2017
Defender Services Office Training Division Announces 42 Training Events For Fiscal Year 2018
September 12, 2017
Former U.S. Attorneys Criticize Attorney General Sessions' Return To Charging Practices That Require Prosecutors To Charge The Most Serious Offense
September 12, 2017
Supreme Court Stays Ninth Circuit’s Travel Ban Ruling With Respect To Refugees Covered By A Resettlement Agreement
September 12, 2017
Black Youth 5X More Likely To Be Detained/Committed Than White Youth
September 7, 2017
Sentencing Commission Releases FY17 Third Quarter Sentencing Update
September 7, 2017
GAO Releases Report on Stakeholders' Views on Potential Actions to Address Collateral Consequences for Nonviolent Drug Convictions
September 5, 2017
United States Sentencing Commission Releases New Analysis of President Obama’s 2014 Clemency Initiative
September 5, 2017
DOJ Announces Decision to Rescind DACA
August 31, 2017
Tenth Circuit Finds 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) Unconstitutional
August 29, 2017
Ninth Circuit Holds that Neither Robbery, Armed Robbery, Nor Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony under Florida Law is Categorically a Violent Felony
August 28, 2017
Third Circuit Opinion Creates New Authority for Defendants to Seek Discovery of Discriminatory Practices in Stash House Sting Operations
August 14, 2017
The Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Criminal, and Evidence Rules Release Proposed Amendments
July 14, 2017
Office of the Inspector General Issues Review of BOP's Use of Restrictive Housing for Inmates with Mental Illness
July 11, 2017
Sentencing Commission Releases Report of Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System
June 26, 2017
Supreme Court Refuses to Extend Exceptions Found in Martinez and Trevino to Defaulted Ineffective Assistance of Appellate Counsel Claims
June 26, 2017
The Supreme Court Remands Petition After Government Confesses Error that Defendant Was Wrongly Sentenced to Pre-FSA Mandatory Minimum
June 23, 2017
Supreme Court Reverses Conviction For Lawful Permanent Resident whose Attorney’s Bad Advice Prejudiced Him
June 22, 2017
Supreme Court Holds that Undisclosed Evidence Was Not "Material" for Purposes of Brady
June 22, 2017
Supreme Court Holds that Petitioner Failed to Meet Burden that Trial Was Fundamentally Unfair or Reasonable Probability of a Different Outcome in Unpreserved Claim of Public Trial Right in Context of IAC Claim
June 22, 2017
Supreme Court Holds that An Immaterial False Statement Prior to Naturalization Was Insufficient to Strip Citizenship
June 19, 2017
Supreme Court Strikes Down Statute Prohibiting Sex Offenders From Accessing Social Media
June 19, 2017
Supreme Court Holds that Alabama's Application of Ake v. Oklahoma Was Unreasonable Because the State Courts Failed to Satisfy Three of the Four Requirements of Ake

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