(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the issue of how to handle a lower court's use of incorrect sentencing guidelines for a deportee convicted of being in the country illegally. Saul ...

Only sentencing guideline aficionados would have paid close attention to yesterday morning’s decision in Beckles v. United States, which came more than three months after the oral argument. In Beckles ...

New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement ...

WEBVTT AND SPANISH. NEXT - ANOTHER BIG STORY ABOUT HOW LONG SOME CRIMINALS HAVE TO STAY BEHIND BARS. HOURS OF DEBATE TODAY AT THE STATE CAPITOL OVER MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES IN NEBRASKA. KETV ...

The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly. Not until 2009 was Marvin Peugh convicted on five counts of federal bank fraud, for conduct occurring in 1999-2000 that caused losses just over $2.5 ...

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