Douglas Cogan

"Why Shouldn't Prisoners Be Voters?"

Vacaville Case May Shift Police Brutality Precedent

Notable new survey and resources concerning sentencing second looks and second chances

"Changing Course in the Overdose Crisis: Moving from Punishment to Harm Reduction and Health"

Will SCOTUS take up another case to address other post-Miller JLWOP issues now that Malvo has gone away?

"Does Bail Reform Increase Crime? An Empirical Assessment of the Public Safety Implications of Bail Reform in Cook County, Illinois"

Is Prez Trump legally unable to grant clemency to Roger Stone?

"The Hidden Cost of the Disease: Fines, Fees, and Costs Assessed on Persons with Alleged Substance Use Disorder"

"Sentencing is Dang Hard... And So..."

Colorado on the verge of abolishing the state's death penalty

SCOTUS unanimously clarifies (in narrow way) that no special words are needed to preserve substantive reasonableness review

SCOTUS unanimously rejects effort to narrow ACCA-predicate drug crimes in Shular

"Madoff Wants Leniency. My Dad Received None. Why should the Ponzi scheme king get out to die, when the judges imprisoned my father with just weeks to live?""

Oregon discovering it might have Apprendi problems with its new first-degree murder sentencing provisions

Attorney General Barr names Michael Carvajal as new permanent Director of the Bureau of Prisons

"Why prosecutorial discretion must be less discreet for criminal justice"

Voting 5-4 on predictable lines, SCOTUS approves of appellate reweighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances to uphold a death sentence

Ending JLWOP, Virginia makes all juveniles offenders eligible for parole (and thereby moots SCOTUS consideration of Malvo case)

"Imagining the Progressive Prosecutor"

Without any comment, SCOTUS quickly denies cert on two big cases raising the constitutionality of acquitted conduct sentencing

Via statement after cert denial, Justice Sotomayor makes lengthy case highlighting doubts about guilt of Texas capital defendant