The US Supreme Court named Jones Day partner Anthony J. Dick to defend a 33-year-old precedent that established a rule on ...

The United States Sentencing Commission’s new guidelines come into effect on November 1, 2026, and may result in shorter ...

The United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously recently to adopt a package of "good government" amendments ...

The federal sentencing landscape in the United States could undergo a significant transformation with recent amendments to update the United States Sentencing Guidelines that will go into effect on ...

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Federal judges will be limited from enhancing defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of, a practice that has drawn condemnation from a wide range of civil liberties groups, ...

A U.S. panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Thursday adopted new guidelines for punishing white-collar criminals, adjusting for inflation how fraud ​victims' losses are calculated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Changes are coming to federal sentencing guidelines unless Congress votes against them. The bipartisan United ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A prosecutor on Friday assured a Ninth Circuit appeals panel that federal sentencing guidelines don’t include thoughtcrime. The argument arose in the case of a French national who ...

Judge Arun Subramanian can consider federal guidelines and aspects of the music mogul’s character and history when determining Mr. Combs’s sentence. By Daniel Victor Though Sean Combs was acquitted on ...