Crime and Consequences
"Discusses crime and the criminal law. Topics include 1) criminal and crime-related civil cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. 2) Significant decisions in the field by other courts. 3) Studies with public policy implications related to crime and criminal justice. 4) Links to and discussion of news items and blogs related to criminal law."
Author: Posts come from legal director and general counsel Kent Scheidegger and others affiliated with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif., including associate attorney Lauren Altdoerffer; and Michael Rushford, CJLF president and CEO. The CJLF's stated purpose "is to assure that people who are guilty of committing crimes receive swift and certain punishment in an orderly and constitutional manner."
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • Prosecutors • Sentencing/Post Conviction • Criminal Procedure • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Crime and Consequences
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Blog Scan
SCOTUSblog Recaps Oral Argument in Wood v. Allen: Readers who would like a quick recap of how members of the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the interaction between 28 U.S.C §2254(d)(2) and §2254(e)(1) should check out…
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News Scan
DP Case Sent Back Over IQ Dispute: Jeff Arnold from the Arkansas Times Record reports that the Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered additional review of evidence that a convicted murderer was competent to stand trial…
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Original Habeas
Habeas corpus petitions filed directly in the U.S. Supreme Court -- as opposed to asking them to review denial of a petition by a lower court -- used to be a zero-chance proposition. After the…
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Blog Scan
Post-Booker Sentencing Disparities: At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman posts on the "blame game" for the increasing number of sentencing disparities taking place in courts. As our News Scan demonstrates, sentencing disparities have recently…
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Abuse of Discretion Standard
From the en banc Ninth Circuit in a federal criminal case, United States v. Hinkson, No. 05-30303:Today, after review of our cases and relevant Supreme Court precedent, we re-state the "abuse of discretion" standard of…
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News Scan
"Looser Sentencing Rules Stir Concerns About Equity": Wall Street Journal writer Amir Efrati reports that federal judges today are excercising more freedoms as they depart from sentencing guidelines. This new latitude in sentencing is creating…
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USCA4 Nominations
Now here is something interesting. Michael Fletcher reports in the WaPo:President Obama Wednesday named two new nominees to serve on the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.... Obama nominated Judge Albert Diaz, a North Carolina…
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Morphing the Question Presented
The Questions Presented in Wood v. Allen, argued today, have to do with the requirements of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) on federal courts' treatment of state court findings of fact. Yet…
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Blog Scan
Public Shaming Instead of Incarceration: At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman posts on a Pennsylvania district attorney's decision to pursue probation instead of incarceration for two women who were arrested for stealing a gift…
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The Perils of Genetic Mitigation
From the New Scientist: Murderer with 'aggression genes' gets sentence cut. And Prof. Farahany gets it right: There are easily many more genes that could suggest a defendant should be incapacitated far longer than a…