Former Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is heading to sentencing in June after her effort to overturn a guilty verdict for ...

The advisory federal sentencing guidelines play an important role in the sentencing of federal offenders (they do not apply to state offenders). The US Sentencing Commission has proposed that the ...

On March 26, 2026, a federal judge in San Jose cut the Theranos founder's sentence from 135 months to 123 months. The reason ...

Jessica Trottier's sentencing guidelines were enhanced after prosecutors showed she tried to put a hit out on a dealer she ...

It ruled in 2022’s People v. Stovall that life sentences for second-degree murder for juveniles, even with the possibility ...

While the Supreme Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington has the federal bar on edge, Texas lawyers have been given breathing room thanks to a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that held ...

Sentencing for criminal cases in Montana is far from simple, often requiring judges and prosecutors to weigh a range of ...