One often hears the term “sentencing guidelines” when following a federal criminal case. But what are they and how do they ...

On December 26, 2023, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (“USSC”) proposed several amendments to its Guidelines Manual (the “Guidelines”). Two of these proposed amendments have the potential to especially ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Changes are coming to federal sentencing guidelines unless Congress votes against them. The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission met on April 11, 2025, and voted ...

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024), the Supreme Court did away with the “Chevron Doctrine” essentially eliminating the Judiciary’s mandated deference to agency ...

In another first, the child of a president was convicted on three felony charges. A jury in Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on two counts of making false statements regarding his drug use when ...

How federal courts calculate prison time and why apologies rarely reduce sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 794 and U.S.S.G. § 2M3.1 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A prosecutor on Friday assured a Ninth Circuit appeals panel that federal sentencing guidelines don’t include thoughtcrime. The argument arose in the case of a French national who ...

Sentencing hearings for the officers convicted, and those that entered guilty pleas, in the Tyre Nichols federal criminal case have been postponed to the summer, federal Judge Mark S. Norris ruled ...

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