Douglas Cogan

Federal criminal caseload highlights from Chief Justice's "2018 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary"

NY Gov closes out 2018 with clemency grants

A hasty review of the SL&P year that was 2018

Highlighting continued work (and optimism) on alternatives to incarceration

Spotlighting how FIRST STEP Act implementation challenges and uncertainty has already begun

"Predictions of Dangerousness in Sentencing: Déjà Vu All Over Again"

More than 40 months after death sentencing, lawyers for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev file their 1000+-page appellate brief with First Circuit

"Hello, FIRST STEP Act! Goodbye, Jeff Sessions! The Year in Criminal Justice Reform"

Spotlighting the enduring challenges posed by risk-assessment mechanisms built into FIRST STEP Act

Another dive into the choppy waters of Miller and Montgomery implementation

Notable pipeline provisions in FIRST STEP Act in the wake of litigation history surrounding FSA of 2010

"Bernie Madoff's secretary wants to use new Trump law to get out of jail early"

Lamenting lack of retroactive application of new sentencing changes in FIRST STEP Act (... and so rooting again for robust clemency)

"Fifty Years of American Sentencing Reform — Nine Lessons"

More notable state clemency developments for the holiday season

Federal judiciary has funds for three weeks of shutdown operations ... so let the FIRST STEP Act litigation begin

Bureau of Justice Statistics releases results of the 2017 National Crime Victimization Survey

Prez Trump signs historic (though modest) FIRST STEP Act into law ... and now comes the critical work of implementing it well!!

Some holiday season highlights from Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform

Some accounts of what should come after the FIRST STEP Act

Second Circuit panel reverses federal death sentence based on "prosecutorial error" during sentencing phase

FIRST STEP Act approved by US House by vote of 358 to 36, will become law as soon as Prez Trump signs!!

State clemency developments during a holiday season still full of (foolish?) hope for clemency boldness from Prez Trump

US Sentencing Commission provides latest "Sentence and Prison Impact Estimate" for FIRST STEP Act

Latest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter covers "The 2018 Debate over Federal Statutory Reform Proposals"