Tag: Sentencing

  • Death Penalty Reforms

    Death Penalty Reforms in the United States Proposed Death Penalty Reforms Executions with opioids A Washington Post article, titled “States to try new ways of executing prisoners. Their latest idea? Opioids”, beggins as follows: “The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation’s opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last…

  • Death Penalty Reforms

    Death Penalty Reforms in the United States Proposed Death Penalty Reforms Executions with opioids A Washington Post article, titled “States to try new ways of executing prisoners. Their latest idea? Opioids”, beggins as follows: “The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation’s opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last…

  • Ankle Monitor

    Ankle Monitor Probation ankle bracelet When a person, an offender, is placed under house arrest by a judge, he or she may be required to wear an ankle monitor, also known as a house arrest bracelet, ankle bracelet, or tether. An ankle bracelet, also known as an ankle monitor, is an electronic monitoring device. It…

  • Ankle Monitor

    Ankle Monitor Probation ankle bracelet When a person, an offender, is placed under house arrest by a judge, he or she may be required to wear an ankle monitor, also known as a house arrest bracelet, ankle bracelet, or tether. An ankle bracelet, also known as an ankle monitor, is an electronic monitoring device. It…

  • Fines

    Fines in the United States Description Fines are financial punishments attached to a conviction for a given offense, and are either specified as a fixed dollar amount or variable range. For example, in Washington State, a first-time drug conviction can result in a $1,000 fine, with each […]

  • Drug Charges

    Drug Charges in the United States Certain illicit drugs (including methamphetamine and cocaine) are legally restricted (or prohibited) in the United States at both the federal and state level. This includes (see below of this entry for more information) the trafficking, distribution, manufacturing, cultivation (with some exceptions) and possession (with many exceptions, specially in the…

  • Appeal

    Appeal in the United States A request to an appellate or superior court to review a final judgment made in a lower court. Appellate jurisdiction is the power conferred upon appeals courts to conduct such a review. It empowers the court to set aside or modify the lower court decision. An […]

  • Sentencing

    Sentencing in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SENTENCINGAnomalously, the constitutional law of criminal sentencing is a thinly developed field. Detailed procedural protections and an elaborate […]

  • Sentencing

    Sentencing in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SENTENCINGAnomalously, the constitutional law of criminal sentencing is a thinly developed field. Detailed procedural protections and an elaborate […]

  • Lawyer or legislator? in the United States How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature. The same inconsistency may be observed in the schoolmen of the middle ages. Those writers show so […]

  • Lawyer or legislator? in the United States How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature. The same inconsistency may be observed in the schoolmen of the middle ages. Those writers show so […]

  • Justice Reinvestment Initiative

    Justice Reinvestment Initiative in the United States Definition Justice reinvestment is a data-driven approach to improve public safety, reduce corrections and related criminal justice spending, and reinvest savings in strategies that can decrease crime and reduce recidivism. Objetives […]

  • Justice Reinvestment Initiative

    Justice Reinvestment Initiative in the United States Definition Justice reinvestment is a data-driven approach to improve public safety, reduce corrections and related criminal justice spending, and reinvest savings in strategies that can decrease crime and reduce recidivism. Objetives […]

  • Drug Offender Function

    Drug Offender Function in the United States This list of drug offender functions are used by the United States Sentencing Commission. These drug offender functions are listed in descending order from most serious to least serious: Importer/High Level Supplier (Imports or otherwise […]

  • Indictment

    Indictment in the United States A formal accusation brought by a grand jury. If a grand jury decides by a majority vote to return a true bill; an indictment is issued after consideration of evidence presented by a prosecutor. A true bill represents a grand jury finding that the prosecutor has […]