Compassionate release motions effectively have become parole or sentence review hearings, a former federal prosecutor writes.

The title of this post is the title of this essay authored by Barry Latzer available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: A recent report on reincarceration by the Council of State Governments Justice ...

Friday’s sentencing formalized Trump’s status as the first president or president-elect who is a felon. Trump appeared remotely from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is conducting his transition ...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to stop his sentencing in the New York hush-money ... the institution of the presidency and the operations of the federal ...

Trump’s attorneys went to the justices after New York courts refused to postpone sentencing, including the state’s highest court on Thursday. Judges in New York have found that the convictions ...

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his hush-money criminal case to prevent his Jan. 10 sentencing ... the operations of the federal government ...

“Lampi’s conduct, and the conduct of his coconspirators, shocks the conscience,” federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo to the judge last month. “The Sentencing Guidelines simply ...

Federal workers are getting the day off Thursday to remember former President Jimmy Carter. The 39th President died Sunday, December 29th at the age of 100. He had been in hospice care the past ...

By Jordan Rubin UPDATE (Jan. 9, 2025, 10:21 a.m. ET): New York’s top state court on Thursday rejected a bid from Donald Trump to block his sentencing ... of “Bizarro," a book about the secret ...

That sentencing will essentially show a man that is above the ... and cause immeasurable damage to the citizenry’s confidence in the Rule of Law.” No federal charges will be pursued against Trump ...

After clinching the presidency, Donald Trump’s string of legal woes appear to be all but behind him — but the president-elect slammed the justice system he contends unfairly targeted him after ...