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Seventeen retired federal judges, appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, filed a brief supporting his appeal.

A jury acquitted Dayonta McClinton and others of various charges, but they served prison time for them anyway. The practice that allows this may soon end.

Sentencing Law and Policy Federal Sentencing Reporter issue considers "After Trump: The Future of the President’s Pardon Power" It strikes me as a great bit of great timing, as we head into a weekend celebrating our great nations declaration of independence from a monarchy, that the new issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter focused on the pardon power in the US Constitution is just now available online.  It is often said that the presidential pardon authority in Article II section 2 of t...

SCOTUSblog flags three notable new sentencing cert petitions Last year around this time, I expressed my sense that it has been quite some time since the Supreme Court has taken up a really big and interesting sentencing case.  This post from near the end of last years SCOTUS Term, titled "Do others sense that SCOTUS has become particularly (and problematically?) quiet on sentencing matters?", captured this zeitgeist.  In the year since, we have gotten a few notable sentencing rulings (on juv...