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Circumstances of the offense, history and characteristics of the offender, there are series of factors. in the cases you are also getting recommendations and in most of the cases, i have not pinned it all down, but in most of the cases, if not all the cases, the government is asking for sentence below the guidelines because this guideline system is not doing the work in this particular case. >> understood. section 230 of the telecommunications decency act provides a degree of immunity for tech c...

Of public sexual harassment seriously, and it isnt currently a crime. the chair of the women and equalities committee wants to change that, and wants the issue to be a higher priority at the top of government. i think that the prime minister needs to step up and show that he does take womens safety seriously, and that hes not interested in a few cosmetic measures like cctv, but actually making sure that we have all of the necessary tools to intervene in that offender journey and make sure that t...

That was an 88% reduction. in united states versus savage, the prosecutor asked for 49 months. you imposed 37. that was a 24% reduction. the united states versus stewart, the prosecutor asked for 97 months. you imposed 57. that was a 41% reduction. every single case, 100% of them when prosecutors came before you with child pornography cases, you sentenced the defenders to substantially below, not just the guidelines which are way higher, but what the prosecutor asked for on average of these case...

Them were guideline sentences, below guidelines or above guidelines. >> okay. i know you answered a lot of questions the last two days about sentences and sex crimes. i want to be exact about this. in this case have you ever gone above the guidelines recommendation? >> i have to take a look at -- i know that i have sentenced offenders to the guidelines in the category of sex crimes in general. i know that i have given 30-year sentences for at least one offender, almost 30 years, 29.5. ive given ...

Way the guideline is now structured, based on that set of circumstances, is leading to extreme disparities in the system because its so easy for people to get volumes of this kind of material now by computers. so it is not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious offender in the way that it used to. so the commission has taken that into account and perhaps even more importantly courts are adjusting their sentences in order to account for the changed circumstances, but it says noth...

Bad. in other words, since the internet makes it simple, were not going to punish as much. maybe weresi misinterpreting what she said. that seems tohat be what she sas does it t make sense if not, it helps to understand. in the clip you just saw the judge brown was not articulating some legal principle related to the constitution that we could generalize across ourrinc code. she was instead constructing a carve out for a narrowf specific group of criminals, sex offenders. and its not the first t...

The u.s. probation office, the arm of the court, recommended that judge jackson impose. figures released by the white house shows her sentences were repeatedly right in line with the offices recommendations and sometimes went higher than the office recommended. senator cruz correctly pointed out that the probation reports were not released to senators. but the white house did disclose the figures and there is no reason to suspect that the white house is lying here. number two, and i think this i...

Absolutely a disaster and its sad and anyone watching it cares. but youre never going to get us to care more about whats happening in ukraine than whats happening in the united states. we are not ukrainian, weary american. if we can care about two things at once but we will always care about the united states most because we were born here and we are staying. with that in mind an update on whats happening in the pacific northwest. amazon moving many of facilities out of seattle that his homebase...

Based on that set of circumstances, is leading to extreme disparities in the system because its so easy for people to get volumes of this kind of material now by computers. so its not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious offender. in the way that it used to. so, the commission has taken that into account and perhaps even more importantly, courts are adjusting their sentences in order to account for the changed circumstances, but it says nothing about the courts view of the ser...

One of the first things you have to do is get the offender to admit their offense,. and what they did was wrong. we do know that connally was released from prison, previously on parole, and about 2013. and unfortunately she was sent back to prison because she breach conditions of her parole. thankfully she hadnt committed any offenses or contact offenses against others. but in the terms of her parole license, so in one way we can argue that the system does work. the decision made by the parole b...