Douglas Cogan

Rounding up some (not-qute) mid-week reads

Might we be getting closer to (needed) new nominees for the "frozen" US Sentencing Commission?

"Judging by the Cover: On the Relationship Between Media Coverage on Crime and Harshness in Sentencing"

Fascinating split Fourth Circuit ruling finds lawyer ineffective and 210-month sentence substantively unreasonable for addicted opioid distributor

"Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time" because some facing only misdemeanor convictions

Four notable new short reports on prison populations from the Bureau of Justice Statistics

Tenth Circuit becomes the latest circuit to embrace a robust view of sentence reduction authority under 3582(c)(1)(A) after FIRST STEP Act

Prez Biden announces his first group of judicial nominees reflecting diverse backgrounds

NY Supreme Court finds that excluding incarcerated people in New York from vaccine access is "arbitrary and capricious and violates Equal Protection"

New empirical study finds "nonprosecution of a nonviolent misdemeanor offense leads to large reductions in the likelihood of a new criminal complaint"

Still considering cert, SCOTUS orders additional letter briefing in method-of-execution case out of Missouri

SCOTUS summarily reverses Sixth Circuit's reversal of state conviction based on ineffective assistance

Senators Durbin and Grassley introduce new "First Step Implementation Act"

Notable back-and-forth on how "conservatives" ought to respond to this moment in crime and punishment

"Getting to Know You: An Expanded Approach to Capital Jury Selection"

Great coverage of recent "second chance" reforms and scholarship at CCRC

"Focusing Presidential Clemency Decision-Making"

Senators Durbin and Grassley re-introduce "Smarter Sentencing Act" to reduce federal drug mandatory minimums

The new death penalty: latest reporting chronicles that COVID has now killed more than 2500 prisoners in the United States

"Punitive Surveillance"

Notable new briefings from the Prison Policy Initiative

Virginia officially repeals its death penalty

Notable Seventh Circuit panel finds insufficient explanation for revoking supervised release for missed drug test and assessments

"What is Public Safety?"