Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 ...

A divided federal appeals court ruled that a policy adopted in 2023 by the U.S. Sentencing Commission which allowed judges to ...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Friday in Washington, D.C., to publish proposed changes in how drug offenses ...

The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission met on April 11, 2025, and voted unanimously to publish amendments to federal sentencing guidelines for the amendment cycle, which ends on May 1 ...

The Sixth Circuit said it won’t modify an April 22 opinion rejecting part of the US Sentencing Commission’s policy on compassionate release, despite the Justice Department’s concern that the decision ...

On November 2, Representative Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, published an article in National Review Online attacking the 2014 decision of the U.S. Sentencing Commission ...

But in April 2024, amid pressure from various lawyers, judges, and advocates, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the judicial-branch agency that writes the federal sentencing guidelines, unanimously ...

Fiore’s legal team filed a motion to vacate the sentencing hearing, which U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey granted Monday.

The US Sentencing Commission’s compassionate release policy provision for “unusually long sentences,” added in 2023, can’t stand, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The federal sentencing landscape in the United States could undergo a significant transformation with recent amendments to update the United ...

George Santos insists he has "accepted full responsibility" for a series of fraudulent schemes despite a "social media blitz" ...