The Chrisley couple will likely spend the next few years in federal prison. But their case raises a number of questions that deserve answers.
Elizabeth Holmes faces a sentence of nearly a decade. Had she not went to trial, it's possible that sentence would be shorter. Why?
During Colorado truck driver Aguilera-Mederos's initial sentencing, the trial judge admitted that he felt restricted by Colorado law and did not believe the 110-year sentence was appropriate to the crime.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission introduced a Judiciary Sentencing INformation platform (JSIN) — a sentencing data tool that provides judges, defense lawyers and the public with online access to limited national sentencing data. However, JSIN isn't perfect and has many flaws.
The United States Supreme Court denied the appeal of Brett Jones,. Jones killed his grandfather in self-defense when he was 15 years old. The opinion, delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, stands for the proposition that judges should have discretion to sentence youth offenders as they
The current sentencing guidelines for ice and mixture methamphetamine are the product of a rash decision and an outdated assumption.
