Sentencing Rules Get Hearing
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The Supreme Court gave a cool reception to the Bush administration&#39;s plea to save the rules that federal judges use in sentencing offenders yesterday, with a slim but firm majority of the court
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year, but justices clashed over whether changes would create greater inequity.    Judges, not juries, consider factors that can add years to defendants' prison sentences, under the government's 17-year-old system which has been challenged as unconstitutional...
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new  term on Monday that will decide important cases on federal  sentencing rules, the death penalty for juveniles and the  medical use of marijuana.
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The U.S. Supreme Court opened its  new term on Monday, with the government's top courtroom lawyer  trying to save the long-standing federal rules used to sentence  about 1,200 criminals each week.
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Magistrates' court staff in England begin a work to rule that could threaten court sittings over Christmas.
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Federal judges no longer have to follow mandatory sentencing guidelines, thanks to the Supreme Court, but they're also left with mounds of paperwork, a backlog of sentencing hearings and uncertainty about the future.
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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case involving a Maine drug dealer that is expected to redefine and end confusion about the country&#39;s entire criminal sentencing system.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. -- A Benton County judge has ordered a hearing next month to determine if baseball manager Wally Backman violated his probation three years ago.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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The US Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday that will decide important cases on federal sentencing rules, the death penalty for juveniles and the medical use of marijuana.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether federal appeals judges can increase prison sentences of criminal defendants in the absence of a request from prosecutors.
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Los Angeles judge may instruct jury to go back and try to reach verdict on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
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The Supreme Court said Monday that it would use the case of a Missouri death row inmate to consider the constitutionality of forcing defendants to appear before juries in chains and shackles.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that criminal sentences within guidelines set by a federal commission are generally entitled to be upheld on appeal, a decision that limits legal options for defendants who feel that they have been punished too harshly.
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A former nurse who admitted killing 17 patients at hospitals in two states must attend a sentencing hearing where he will face the families of six of his alleged victims, a judge ruled.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.