Section 3661 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code states: “No limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence.” ...

Here the Court threw out the defendant’s conviction for narco-terrorism after concluding that the Government had committed a Brady violation by failing to disclose before trial that one of its principal witnesses was a known liar.

Haji Bagcho, an Afghan merchant who is now in his mid-70s, was one of ...

In 1988, Gregory V. Scarpa, Jr., was charged with a RICO conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) and related substantive offenses for operating a drug trafficking enterprise as part of the Colombo organized crime family. He was convicted and sentenced to the statutory maximum of twenty years.

Then, ...

Here the Court vacated a sentence on the grounds that the district court’s factual findings were insufficient to support the four-level sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) for the use or possession of a firearm.

In January of 2014, the Milwaukee police responded to a domestic violence call received from ...

This is an interesting decision about the extra-territorial reach of American laws in general; and, more specifically, about the constitutionality of several Federal statutes that give special rights to various people who, by virtue of their office, are designated as “internationally protected persons” (an “IPPs”). IPPs are a creature of ...

The somewhat amusing contretemps in this case arose out of the appeal by Shaun Bosse of the death penalty sentence that was imposed after he was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for the 2010 killing of his girlfriend Katrina Griffin and her two children. Over Bosse’s objection, the ...