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Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Irizarry v. United States, a case involving judges’ duty to notify parties before departing from the sentencing guidelines.  If you’re looking to…

Irizarry v. United States  SCOTUSblog: Argument Previews 

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Irizarry v. United States  Kennedy v. Louisiana  U.S. Supreme Court 

The New York Times had this article over the weekend about New York’s decision to keep four prisons open despite the state having 9,000 fewer inmates than it did in 1999. Former Governor Elliott Spitzer…

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Incarceration Second Chance Act 

With all the [continued] Baze publicity, going largely unnoticed was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week to grant cert in Chambers v. U.S. (06-11206). Just five days after the Court ruled in Begay v.…

Begay v. United States 

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Just days after President Bush signed the Second Chance Act, the AP is reporting Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has her own plan to reduce the number of prisoners returning to…

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