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Effective accounting of Miller implementation four years after Montgomery made ruling retroactive

"How America’s prisons and jails perpetuate the opioid epidemic"

Don’t Jump at the Chance to go to IRS Appeals Directly from a Tax Audit

Rehearing petition (and guest post) in Mississippi Supreme Court case upholding 12-year prison term for mere possession of cell phone in jail

Reflecting on the meaning of "life" after Graham and Miller

Georgia completes second execution in US in 2020

"The Criminal Class and the Right to Be Subjected to Unreasonable Searches and Seizures"

Dispensary owner gets (within-guideline?!) federal prison term of 15+ years for marijuana sales that could be legal under most state laws

Contesting LWOP in Louisiana for selling a joint thanks to a a "quad bill" and the trial penalty

"Financial Hardship and the Excessive Fines Clause: Assessing the Severity of Property Forfeitures After Timbs"

More on the need for more robust SCOTUS criminal defense representation

"(Un)Constitutional Punishments: Eighth Amendment Silos, Penological Purposes, and People's 'Ruin'"

Sixth Circuit panel declares one-day prison sentence (plus 10 years on supervised release) for large child porn possession substantively unreasonable

SCOTUS dismisses Walker ACCA case after death of petitioner (and after robust amicus efforts)

"The Cruelty of Supermax Detention and the Case for a Hard-Time Sentencing Discount: A Pragmatic Solution to a Moral Shortcoming Which Is Otherwise Unlikely to Be Fixed"

Different type of drug dealers get lengthy (though still way-below-guideline) sentences for RICO conspiracy to push opiods

Reversing state precedent, Florida Supreme Court cuts back on reach of SCOTUS Sixth Amendment capital ruling in Hurst

"What should criminal justice reform look like in 2020?"

Prez candidate Tom Steyer releases his plan for "Transforming Criminal Justice"

Preliminary FBI reports indicate considerable drops in murder and other violent crimes as well as in property crimes in first half of 2019

"Criminal Justice Reform in the Fentanyl Era: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"

Dennis Brager Published in Fox News Article

Council on Criminal Justice releases new papers on "Federal Sentencing Provisions of the 1994 Crime Bill"

US Sentencing Commission releases new report on "Inter-District Differences in Federal Sentencing Practices"