Cabinet Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has renewed her call for Jamaica's sentencing guidelines to be reviewed. Mrs. Johnson Smith says she does not support the automatic discount that was ...
SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw County judge has ruled four years in prison is insufficient for a Bridgeport Township man who broke ...
Federal sentencing for fraud and theft offenses has long been dominated by a single metric: monetary loss. Section 2B1.1 of ...
A Bath man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to theft of approximately $225,000 from an elderly disabled veteran, money he'd spend on a snowmobile, travel, and jewelry for ex-girlfriends, ...
The Sentencing Guidelines Committee held meetings during the week of 5 January 2026 when a delegation from the Foreign, ...
A judge sentenced a man from County to 25 years in prison Monday for his role in a planned carjacking and kidnapping federal prosecutors called "shockingly violent." ...
Sentencing guidelines for offences involving bladed weapons and fatal traffic incidents are expected to be released later ...
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Victim relief as key sentencing test to be abolished

People convicted of a crime will no longer receive lesser sentences because they are of "good character" in a seismic change to deliver more justice to victims.
Federal sentencing guidelines create consistency in punishments nationwide, typically resulting in sentences within a narrow range determined by crime severity and criminal history.
BOSTON (AP) — The union representing British soccer players will announce on Tuesday the first comprehensive protocol for ...
Yesterday’s majority opinion by Brett Kavanaugh in Ellingburg v. United States well may be the shortest of the term – less ...
A handful of states across the country have passed similar legislation in recent years, including Georgia, New York and ...