Court: Sentencing System Wrongly Applied
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Disposing of a constitutional challenge to the federal sentencing system, the Supreme Court has set up an anticipated fight in Congress over how judges punish convicted criminals.
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To the editor:  Lawyer Dominic Gentile is right: former policeman and Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone's punishment was wrong (Wednesday Review-Journal). But he's right for the wrong reason.  Malone's punishment wasn't too long; it was too short.
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Motorists who cause death on the roads could avoid jail under new official sentencing guidelines
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Thomas Coughlin, who was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing false tax returns, got off too light, an appeals court ruled.
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In a major criminal law decision, a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal judges no longer must follow the long-criticized sentencing guidelines in effect since 1987.
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(AGI) - Turin, Italy, November 26 Ãâ For judge Giuseppe Casalbore, who issued the sentence after four hours of cabinet, there was a fraud just like the attempt to change the outcome of matches since &#39;94.
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Arkansas correction officials are dedicating a Bible-based program for female prisoners, but a national group said it's a risky move while a similar system is being challenged in federal court.
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Overturn District Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals verdicts, please
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A federal appeals court threw out the 10-year prison sentence of a woman who rented her 9-year-old daughter to a pedophile more than 200 times, saying the punishment was too lenient.
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Part 2: A welfare mother has been in a Wisconsin jail for seven months to protect her child. Is she or the judge to blame?
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A Colombian court's decision to sentence three Irishmen to 17 years in jail was a surprise, the Irish Government says.
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Iran's hard-line judiciary makes a rare admission of error in a case against Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
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BIG ISSUE: The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether the system for sentencing federal defendants should be thrown out because it lets judges, rather than juries, decide factors that add years to prison time.
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The judge who dismissed the case said that prosecutors had violated the defendantsâ rights to a fair trial and legal representation.
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Calling her untruthful, selfish and a "ticking bomb on our roads," a Montgomery County judge sent a 59-year-old woman in a wheelchair to jail after a jury convicted her of vehicular manslaughter and negligent driving charges.
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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench
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The judge said there was a flaw in the procedure the military has used to file war crimes charges against Guantanamo detainees.