Federal sentencing developments from June 16–20, 2025, including Supreme Court sentencing watch, federal kidnapping jurisdiction, Fourth Amendment traffic-stop detention, First Step Act implementation, Second Chance Act home confinement policy, and § 922(g) relief considerations.
Federal sentencing developments from June 9–13, 2025, including Supreme Court habeas procedure, second-or-successive filing rules, pending sentencing decisions, jury-deliberation error, involuntary plea relief, partial acquittal, and FOIA records access.
Federal sentencing developments from June 2–6, 2025, including Supreme Court review of warrantless home entry, private prison contractor immunity, Second Amendment litigation, Eighth Amendment issues, compassionate release circuit splits, and § 851 sentencing notice errors.
Federal sentencing developments from May 26–30, 2025, including Supreme Court compassionate release review, § 3582 and § 2255 overlap, refusal-to-cooperate sentencing error, suppression rulings, safety valve relief, and trial-instruction reversals.
Federal sentencing relief illustration highlighting retroactive guidelines, ineffective plea advice, ACCA review, and § 922(g) relief for Federal Relief & Sentencing Developments, May 19–23, 2025.
Federal sentencing developments from May 12–16, 2025, including Supreme Court Fourth Amendment use-of-force review, compassionate release remands, mitigating role sentencing errors, Sentencing Commission amendments, drug guideline changes, and supervised release updates.
Federal sentencing developments from May 5–9, 2025, including intended loss calculation errors, appeal waiver issues, inadequate sentencing explanations, ignored mitigation arguments, post-arrest silence, Miranda protections, and due process trial concerns.
Federal sentencing developments from April 28–May 2, 2025, including Supreme Court FTCA law-enforcement liability arguments, career offender predicate challenges, federal sentencing review, and Fourth Amendment cellphone search suppression.
Federal sentencing developments from April 21–25, 2025, including mitigating role sentencing review, obstruction enhancement findings, § 922(g) Second Amendment challenges, ACCA resentencing after Erlinger, Range finality, and clemency developments.
Federal sentencing developments from April 14–18, 2025, including mitigating role resentencing, invalid appeal waivers, sentencing enhancement challenges, trial evidence errors, Anti-Kickback limits, and Sentencing Commission amendments.