Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Posts
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The impending sentencing of Wesley Snipes on his misdemeanor tax convictions nicely frames an interesting question about celebrity and sentencing. In celebration of Tax Day, the government filed its sentencing memo today, urging (not surprisingly) that Read More...
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Does the cruel-and-unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbid execution for crimes that do not result in the death of the victim? That's a wide-angle framing of the question on which the Supreme Court's set to hear Read More...
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