From the rarified atmosphere of Posnerland comes this sweeping decision expanding the permitted scope of special conditions of supervised release; and, because of the exalted status if its author, Judge Richard Posner, the ruling he adopted in this case will probably soon be accepted as dogma and set off a ...

This is an important venue decision in which the Third Circuit reversed the convictions of the defendant for various cybercrimes, on the grounds that venue did not lie in New Jersey (where he was convicted) and that the district court had erred in its venue determination.

The decision is a ...

In U.S. v. Diaz, No. 11-CR-00821-2 (JG), 2013 WL 322243 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 28, 2013) (P&J, 02/04/13), District Judge John Gleeson on the E.D.N.Y. granted a significant sentence reduction to the defendant - a “run-of-the-mill, low-level participant in a drug distribution offense” - based on what he called a “deep and ...

This is an important and potentially far reaching habeas corpus decision that addresses the question of whether a federal inmate may use a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to challenge a sentence that was based on the career offender enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, when subsequent case law reveals the ...