Here the Court strongly condemned the philosophy that a defendant must meekly and silently "accept any punishment that the government chooses to mete out, however incommensurate with the underlying conduct" to receive a § 3E1.1 reduction.

This is an important case dealing with the concept of reductions in a sentence ...

Here the Court upheld a sentence increase based on the "foggy" memory of a drug user informant on the theory that it is unrealistic to expect government witnesses to possess the credibility of people of the cloth such as rabbis and priests.

This case takes on special meaning when viewed ...

In this case the defendant and her co-defendant were convicted for their participation as couriers in a heroin distribution ring. At sentencing, the district court noted that it was "very troubling" that the co-defendant had received a sentence of 31 months in a different court, while the Government was seeking ...

This is an interesting case about an important statute that controls the right of a defendant to obtain access to jury selection records in connection with his claim that he was denied the right to a jury selected at random from a fair cross-section of the community, as guaranteed by ...

Although we normally don't comment on cases decided by the Federal Court of Appeals, we felt this case deserved mention because it deals with a recurring problem in our criminal justice system - namely, the reneging on promises made to snitches to induce them to provide the Government with the ...