Showing posts with label sentencing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentencing. Show all posts
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Update: Mob rule

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The mob in Santa Clara County spoke loud and clear on Tuesday when they voted to recall Judge Aaron Persky because they thought the sentenc...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Who wants an independent judiciary anyway?

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Today is judgment day for Judge Aaron Persky who gained renown when he sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail and pr...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

What happens when a law prof ventures outside the ivory tower

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Over a year ago I wrote about t he hornets nest that opened around Judge Aaron Persky in Santa Clara, California. You may recall that he pr...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

An attack on discretion

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In theory, a judge should make his or her decisions on the bench without regard to politics. In theory, a judge should be shielded from poli...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The assembly line keeps on moving

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I caught an interesting piece on All Things Considered  this afternoon about sentencing reform . Over the last couple of decades tough-on-cr...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Reforming sentencing laws

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It's fairly axiomatic that legislatures generally play catch-up to society. Once there appears to be something of a groundswell around a...
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Friday, December 28, 2012

Thinking twice before uttering that big number

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So just how much sense does it make to lock someone up in prison until they are in their 80's or 90's? Sure, maybe the sentencing gu...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The rich really are different from the rest of us

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So, Richard Frase, under what theory of punishment would you classify the Federal Government's decision not to indict HSBC in exchange f...
Monday, December 17, 2012

I've got a theory about that

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The other day Scott Greenfield pointed out that law schools are failing their students . And he had the bar exam pass rates to prove it. He ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

He's out for a scalp

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Doug Berman is on the warpath . In the aftermath of the accident that killed Dallas Cowboy linebacker Jerry Brown, Mr. Berman wants the scal...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Making an example

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"We were hoping for the maximum," he said, "to make an example." Yesterday R. Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 yea...
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