Federal Sentencing Study

Federal Sentencing Study
Professor David Zlotnick Roger Williams University School of Law	[click here for other sentencing resources]
Since the Fall of 2002, I have undertaken to create a set of case studies of federal sentencings that captures judicial dissatisfaction with the sentencing laws in effect during the mandatory Guidelines era . After corresponding with hundreds of inmates, I have gathered sufficient documents to write detailed profiles of forty Republican appointees and at least one case in which each of these judges stated their disagreement with the sentence required by law from the bench. Only cases where reliable documents, such as the Pre-Sentence Investigation Report (“PSI”) and the Sentencing Transcript, were available were considered. Read More
Republican Appointees and Judicial Discretion: Cases Studies from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Era Republican Appointee and Case Profiles 1. By Subject Matter 2. By Alphabetical Order 3. By Jurisdiction Additional Statements by Republican Appointees on Sentencing Policy Description of Research Methodology The Future of Federal Sentencing Policy: Learning Lessons from Republican Appointees in the Guidelines Era, 79 U. Colo. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2007) The War within the War on Crime: The Congressional Assault on Sentencing Policy, 57 SMU L. Rev. 211 (2004).