WASHINGTON, D.C. – Changes are coming to federal sentencing guidelines unless Congress votes against them. The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission met on April 11, 2025, and voted ...

A U.S. panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Friday proposed tougher penalties for crimes involving the ...

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In another first, the child of a president was convicted on three felony charges. A jury in Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on two counts of making false statements regarding his drug use when ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A prosecutor on Friday assured a Ninth Circuit appeals panel that federal sentencing guidelines don’t include thoughtcrime. The argument arose in the case of a French national who ...

Paul Shechtman discusses the amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, effective Nov. 1, 2024, concerning acquitted conduct inclusing how the acquitted conduct amendment came into being and what ...

A government panel could soon limit a little-known but outrageous practice that allows federal judges to enhance defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of. The U.S. Sentencing ...

Sentencing hearings for the officers convicted, and those that entered guilty pleas, in the Tyre Nichols federal criminal case have been postponed to the summer, federal Judge Mark S. Norris ruled ...