JD Supra

Recalibrating Economic Crime Sentencing: The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Proposed Reforms to Section 2B1.1 and What They Mean for the Defense Bar

Federal sentencing for fraud and theft offenses has long been dominated by a single metric: monetary loss. Section 2B1.1 of ...
Yahoo

U.S. Sentencing Commission approves revisions to federal sentencing guidelines

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Changes are coming to federal sentencing guidelines unless Congress votes against them. The bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission met on April 11, 2025, and voted ...
JD Supra

2025 Update to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: A Streamlined Two-Step Process

On November 1, 2025, the most recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual went into effect. Among other changes, the amendments streamline the sentencing process from three steps to two ...
SCOTUSblog

Justices hold that restitution requirements imposed on federal convicts can’t be ratcheted up after the crime but before sentencing

Yesterday’s majority opinion by Brett Kavanaugh in Ellingburg v. United States well may be the shortest of the term – less ...
Law

Federal Judge in Miami Rules Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional

The federal judges of the Southern District of Florida seem to have each decided to go their own way as to whether the Supreme Court's Blakely decision applies to federal sentencing guidelines. Some ...