Punch and Jurists

U.S. v. Rodriquez, No. 06-1646 (U.S. Supreme Court) (553 U.S. 377; 128 S.Ct. 1783) (May 19, 2008) (Justice Alito) by This is the second case in the Court’s 2007-2008 term to examine the range of predicate convictions that qualify a person for elevated sentences under the Armed Career Criminal Act, …

U.S. v. Moore, No. 03-CR-11 (E.D.Wisc.) (288 F.Supp.2d 955) (October 17, 2003) (Judge Lynn S. Adelman) by In this decision, Judge Adelman firmly rejected the Probation Department’s efforts to increase the defendant’s sentence by adding one criminal history point for a 1998 conviction for loitering - on the grounds that …