In March 2005, Brian Von Behren was sentenced to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release for receipt and distribution of child pornography. In March 2014, as he neared release, the probation office petitioned to modify his release conditions. The petition requested several new and revised conditions, ...

The defendant in this case, Chevelle Nesbeth, a 20-year-old college student, while visiting Jamaica at the behest of a boyfriend, agreed to bring back to the United States two suitcases given to her by friends. Unfortunately, the suitcases contained 602 grams of cocaine hidden in the handles. The drugs were ...

According to the Solicitor General, in an amicus brief filed in thus case, in Federal criminal prosecutions,“the median time between conviction and sentencing in 2014 was 99 days.” Here, the petitioner, Brandon Betterman, was arrested after failing to appear in court on domestic assault charges. After he was charged with ...

In this decision, the Supreme Court held, by a 7-1 vote, that the conviction and death sentence twenty-nine years ago of a young black man, Timothy Tyrone Foster of Rome, Ga., for murdering and sexually assaulting a 79 year-old white woman, was unconstitutional, based on the prosecution’s use of peremptory ...

In this case, the Supreme Court made it vastly easier for the Government to deport persons who are not U.S. citizens if they are convicted of a felony crime of any grade. And, while this decision essentially involves an interpretation of one of the many obtuse Federal immigration laws (a ...