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After the unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump, PolitiFact breaks down the indictment to explain the charges, prosecutors' challenges and...
Congress should repeal redundant fraud laws, eliminating the risk of oversentencing and addressing the problem of overcriminalization.
The Biden Administration could get 100% of all issuers to institute robust compliance programs, and uncover most corporate crime, if, as a condition of all Deferred Prosecution...
"Obstruction of Justice: Redesigning the Shortcut" The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Ellen Podgor just published in the BYU Law Review and now available at this link. Here is its abstract: When one looks to accomplish consistency and predictability in the criminal justice system — important goals tied to achieving deterrence — the architecture of obstruction of justice remains important. It is insufficient to suggest that we have consistency in sentencing by using federal sentencing guidelines, when the charging process is undermined by its failure to pr...