Court: Sentencing System Wrongly Applied
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A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.
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Prosecutors may have given a court incorrect information about links between an Indian doctor detained in Australia on terror charges and failed car bombings in Britain, a report said Friday.
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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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A divided appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man condemned for killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children.
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A federal judge who ruled in 2005 that Californiaâs broken prison medical care system amounted to cruel and unusual punishment dismissed the receiver who had been appointed to repair the system.
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The Supreme Court dismissed a case Monday in which a defendant says his lawyers gave him bad advice by telling him to reject a plea deal that would have spared him a death sentence.
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Appeal judges rule the government acted unlawfully by keeping some prisoners in jail for 'too long'.
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The former White House aide, now facing 30 months in prison, was a victim of the quirks of federal sentencing guidelines
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A Hong Kong court has rejected an appeal by a man who had been jailed in what was the world's first prison sentence for distributing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent Internet network.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27.
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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.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returned for another term Monday and wasted no time getting down to business, appearing poised to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year.    But justices clashed over whether any changes they make would create greater inequity in the federal system...
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California's troubled prison system was dealt a setback Tuesday when a judge ruled the state cannot ease its severe overcrowding by transferring inmates elsewhere.
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Overturn District Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals verdicts, please
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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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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench