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Over a million people a year will face sentencing. For a client and their loved ones, it will be the most important day of their lives.Unlike at trial, there is virtually no limit to the kind of information a lawyer can credibly present to advocate for their client and…
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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty. Here's What Happens Next. (opens the original)
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When someone pleads guilty to intentionally killing another person, with premeditation, in broad daylight, it's hard to imagine anything other than a life sentence. But that's not the end of the story for Luigi Mangione, because his federal guilty plea is a "no agreements" plea. That means no sentencing stipulations, no mandatory minimums, and full rights to appeal. Perhaps most important, the mitigation story is not yet fully told. All of this means there's still a chance he avoids going to pri
BOP 2026: Crumbling, Weaponized, but (Finally) Wired? (opens the original)
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Prison isn't meant to be easy and being inside is punishment. If every incarcerated human has a fair designation process, safe infrastructure, and meaningful programming, then safety and rehabilitation happens. But in two stunning developments, two things are now unequivocally clear: the facilities are crumbling, and the designation process can now be weaponized by the DOJ. A quietly updated BOP policy now gives DOJ explicit authority to override its own classification system and place any inmat
The Process is the Punishment: Hannah Dugan Sentencing Post-Mortem (opens the original)
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Ideally, every sentence serves to promote respect for the law. But in an age of the most lawless DOJ in American history – respect for the law is a dead letter. The sentencing of Judge Hannah Dugan is the most recent example of a how a weaponized DOJ is built for retribution, not justice. Doug Passon and sentencing stats expert Mark Allenbaugh conduct one of their famous "sentencing post-mortems", dissecting every aspect of Judge Dugan's sentencing. She avoided a prison cell, but her life is for
The Fate of John Bolton: Trump Doesn't Just Pick Who's Prosecuted — Now He Picks Your Prison, Too (opens the original)
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Ambassador John Bolton pled guilty last week to mishandling classified information, and the plea includes a stipulation that if he receives prison, the term is no more than five years. On paper, this agreement reads like a win. But the plea isn't the paper that matters most, because the same week Bolton signed his plea, Acting U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche quietly issued a policy formalizing something no DOJ has ever done: proclaimed express authority to override the Bureau of Prisons and personall
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