This article discusses Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines, which went into effect on November 1, 2023, adding a new “zero-point offender” adjustment. The white-collar bar lauded this amendment ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the issue of how to handle a lower court's use of incorrect sentencing guidelines for a deportee convicted of being in the country illegally. Saul ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Only sentencing guideline aficionados would have paid close attention to yesterday morning’s decision in Beckles v. United ...

In a huge victory for white collar defendants and lawyers alike, the US Sentencing Commission (the “Commission”) recently announced several key amendments to existing federal sentencing guidelines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the state's new guidelines, juvenile convictions that are 10 years or older should no longer be considered when ...

A Sentencing Guidelines Committee has been established, and the first phase will be to work on sentencing guidelines for offences such as drug offences, causing death by driving offences, bladed ...

New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement ...