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Today, we look at how a decision Chesa Boudin's parents made shaped his path from the public defender's office to the prosecutor's seat. It's the first

The campaign chairwoman has been with the 2020 hopeful through it all - and knows the way forward. Written By: Washington Post | × Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and her sister Maya Harris. Washington Post photo by Melina Mara. DES MOINES — It was the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and Kamala Harris was explaining to her sister, Maya, that campaigns are like prisons. She'd been recounting how in the days before the Democratic debate in Miami life had actually slowed down to a manageable pace. Kamala, Maya and the rest of the team had spent three days prepping for that contest in a bea...

December 19, 2020 Split Sixth Circuit panel decides FIRST STEP Act's less severe 924(c) mandatory minimums are applicable to resentencing In this post a full two years ago right after the enactment for the FIRST STEP Act, I flagged some issues regarding which "pipeline" defendants might be able to benefit from the Act's reduced sentencing terms.  (By "pipeline," I meant cases in which offense conduct took place before passage of the FIRST STEP Act, but a sentence was not fully finalized when the Act became law.)  In that post, I noted that Congress in the FIRST STEP Act had expressly provi...

"Transforming the Progressive Prosecutor Movement" The title of this post is the title of this notable paper newly posted to SSRN and authored by Darcy Covert. Here is its abstract: It is a near universally accepted principle that prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the criminal system.  In response, a new movement has emerged: Its proponents argue that, by electing progressive district attorneys, we can use the power of prosecutors to end mass incarceration and restore fairness to the criminal system without changing a single law.  They propose to accomplish these goals primarily b...

Rifle. >> emily: may be. i think that might be a regulation rather than mandatory confiscation. if i could focus on kamala harris for a second, for someone who has had decades of criminal justice experience, i find her flip-flopping very confusing. she started with the take back and now the buyback, which makes no sense. she builds herself up as a "progressive prosecutor." but it was a status quo. under her reign, there were a lot of atrocities that happened that now she has distanced herself from. the supreme court said that your overcrowding in california is cruel and unusual. she defended i...