James M. Doyle | August 26, 2019 | Sentencing
In a recent New York Times op ed piece, James Forman, Jr. and Sarah Lustbader pose the question, “What can we do to shrink our prison population, the world’s largest?”Their essay’s title, “Every D.A. in America Should Open a Sentence Review Unit,” provides one...
Lauren Klosinski | August 16, 2019 | Sentencing
An article for Law360 entitled “Risk Assessment Tools Are Not A Failed ‘Minority Report’” discusses the use of risk assessment tools used by judges in criminal cases. The article comes in response to a New York Times op-ed which implied that risk assessment tools make...
Darryl K. Brown | August 6, 2019 | Sentencing
On July 15, a Virginia judge sentenced James Fields Jr. to a life sentence, plus 419 years, for killing Heather Heyer at the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally by ramming his car into a crowd.Some may wonder about the point of a centuries-long sentence – far...
Pauline Toboulidis | July 9, 2019 | Sentencing
An article from Law360 Access to Justice breaks down a recent appellate decision on the interpretation of federal sentencing guidelines which could have a major impact on people with prior criminal records who are being sentenced for new crimes. The article details...
Kevin Reitz, Cecelia M. Klingele and Lauren Klosinski | June 24, 2019 | Sentencing
Kevin R. Reitz of University of Minnesota Law School and Cecelia M. Klingele of University of Wisconsin Law School recently published an article in Volume 48 of Crime and Justice, a journal from the University of Chicago. Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has...
