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• The Price (in Years) of Celebrity

  Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:45 AM By David Feige
  
  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...
  Filed under: sentencing, Wesley Snipes, Taxes, celebrity

• Sentence First, Verdict Afterward! The Anatomy of Plea Coercion.

  Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:08 PM By David Feige
  
  Michael Brick’s ambitious piece in today’s New York Times about the wide ranging narcotics prosecutions in the housing projects of Brooklyn omitted some important details which suggest that the “historic conspiracy” referred to in the Brooklyn District Read More...
  Filed under: sentencing, Brookyln, Plea Bargains, Conspiracy, Drugs, Judges, Bail

• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Another way to do the time even if you didn’t do the crime.

  Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:34 PM By David Feige
  
  In the layman's view of the criminal-justice system, defendants go to trial, are convicted or acquitted of certain charges, and if convicted, are sentenced for the offenses. But try to explain the reality of being sentenced for acquitted conduct, and Read More...
  Filed under: sentencing, Booker Acquittal Conviction Supreme Court Cert

• Two Strikes and You're Violent?

  Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:50 AM By Phillip Carter
  
  Columbia business professor Ray Fisman has a fascinating column in Slate on the economics of California's "three strikes" law -- a subject near to my heart because I wrote my undergraduate thesis on it. Researchers at RAND have done some work on the costs, Read More...
  Filed under: law and economics, California, three strikes, sentencing

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