Times West Virginian
Mar 10, 2021
CLARKSBURG â A Fairmont man admitted to a firearms charge in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg on Tuesday.
Terrance Cecil Clark, 27, pled guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, said acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard.
Clark, who is prohibited from having a firearm because of prior convictions, admitted to having a 9-millimeter pistol in May 2020 in Marion County. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael John Aloi on Tuesday.
Clark faces up to 10 years of incarceration and a fine of up to $250,000. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed will be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
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Apprendi
The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper authored by Frank O. Bowman III now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:
In this contribution to the
North Carolina Law Review s symposium on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court s decision in
Apprendi v. New Jersey, I offer a valedictory reflection on my own intellectual journey with sentencing reform and in particular with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
The account begins with my first encounters with the Guidelines when I was a zealous Assistant U.S Attorney, continues through my transition to teacher, scholar, policy advocate, and occasional sentencing consultant, and foreshadows a conclusion with me in the role of disillusioned curmudgeon muttering about might-have-beens as I shuffle towards my dotage.
On Thursday, Feb. 25, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging two defendants in a scheme that targeted California Employment Development Department (EDD) unemployment insurance benefits that were intended for Californians hit hardest by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
The three-count indictment charges Jason Vertz, 51, of Fresno, and Alana Powers, 45, an inmate at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. The indictment was unsealed and Vertz was arraigned on Tuesday following his arrest.
According to court documents, Vertz and Powers submitted several fraudulent unemployment insurance claims in Powers’ and other CCWF inmates’ names to EDD. Recorded jail calls and emails show that Powers and other inmates, provided names, dates of birth, and social security numbers for inmates at CCWF to Vert