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- Douglas A. Berman
- Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law
- Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University
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My Other Blogs
- Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform
- Criminal Law Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Law School Innovation
- Death Penalty Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Legislation Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Sentencing Courses @ Moritz College of Law
- The Golf Blog
My Books & Journals
- Sentencing Law & Policy (4th ed. Wolters Kluwer 2018)
- Federal Sentencing Reporter
- Past FSR Articles
- Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
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Recent Posts
- Remarkable tale of how uncertain criminal laws and their enforcement can produce extraordinary punishment inequities
- "Gideon Incarcerated: Access to Counsel in Pre-Trial Detention"
- SCOTUS rules 5-4 to extend Fourth Amendment protections to cell-site records in Carpenter
- SCOTUS rules 5-4 against finding Double Jeopardy Clause limits prosecutors over severed trials
- Fourth Circuit affirms ruling that DC sniper Lee Malvo entitled to resentencing due to Miller and Montgomery
- Fascinating accounting of prosecutorial role in considerable racial disparity in Florida sentencing
- New Hampshire Gov (finally) vetoes state legislature's repeal of the state's death penalty
- "N.F.L. Players to Trump: Here’s Whom You Should Pardon"
- Split Michigan Supreme Court rejects Sixth Amendment challenge to state's new juve LWOP statute
- Nevada now scheduled to conduct execution, its first in a dozen years, using an opioid lethal injection cocktail
Topical Archive
- Advisory Sentencing Guidelines
- Almendarez-Torres and the prior conviction exception
- Apprendi / Blakely Retroactivity
- Aspects and impact of Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act
- Assessing Graham and its aftermath
- Assessing Miller and its aftermath
- Baze and Glossip lethal injection cases
- Blakely Commentary and News
- Blakely in Appellate Courts
- Blakely in Legislatures
- Blakely in Sentencing Courts
- Blakely in the States
- Blakely in the Supreme Court
- Booker and Fanfan Commentary
- Booker in district courts
- Booker in the Circuits
- Books
- Campaign 2008 and sentencing issues
- Campaign 2012 and sentencing issues
- Campaign 2016 and sentencing issues
- Celebrity sentencings
- Claiborne and Rita reasonableness case
- Clemency and Pardons
- Collateral consequences
- Criminal justice in the Obama Administration
- Criminal justice in the Trump Administration
- Criminal Sentences Alternatives
- Current Affairs
- Data on sentencing
- Death Penalty Reforms
- Detailed sentencing data
- Drug Offense Sentencing
- Elections and sentencing issues in political debates
- Examples of "over-punishment"
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Film
- Fines, Restitution and Other Economic Sanctions
- Food and Drink
- Gall reasonableness case
- Graham and Sullivan Eighth Amendment cases
- Guest blogging by Professor Alex Kreit
- Guest blogging by Professor Richard Frase
- Guest blogging by Professor Stephanos Bibas
- Guest blogging by Proskauer Rose
- Gun policy and sentencing
- Implementing retroactively new USSC crack guidelines
- Irizarry SCOTUS case
- Jackson and Miller Eighth Amendment cases
- Kennedy child rape case
- Kimbrough reasonableness case
- Legislative Reactions to Booker and Blakely
- Libby sentencing
- Mandatory minimum sentencing statutes
- Marijuana Legalization in the States
- National and State Crime Data
- New crack statute and the FSA's impact
- New USSC crack guidelines and report
- Offender Characteristics
- Offense Characteristics
- On blogging
- Post-Libby commutation developments
- Pot Prohibition Issues
- Preparing for pot professing
- Prisons and prisoners
- Procedure and Proof at Sentencing
- Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing
- Race, Class, and Gender
- Recap posts
- Recommended reading
- Recuenco and review of Blakely error
- Reentry and community supervision
- Religion
- Rita reactions
- Science
- Scope of Imprisonment
- Second Amendment issues
- Sentences Reconsidered
- Sentencing around the world
- Severability of FSG
- Sex Offender Sentencing
- Sports
- State Sentencing Guidelines
- Technocorrections
- Television
- Vagueness in Johnson and thereafter
- Victims' Rights At Sentencing
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
- White-collar sentencing
- Who Sentences?
- The Archives
Weekly Archives
- June 24, 2018 - June 30, 2018
- June 17, 2018 - June 23, 2018
- June 10, 2018 - June 16, 2018
- June 3, 2018 - June 9, 2018
- May 27, 2018 - June 2, 2018
- May 20, 2018 - May 26, 2018
- May 13, 2018 - May 19, 2018
- May 6, 2018 - May 12, 2018
- April 29, 2018 - May 5, 2018
- April 22, 2018 - April 28, 2018
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