The pre-sentencing report, which is said to be 1, 000 pages or more, paints two different pictures of the men's alleged motives, Debevoise added.
Believe it or not, this looks good on a pre-sentencing report when the government is thinking of the best ways to rehabilitate a person.
After a conviction, the government prepares a pre-sentencing report based on those guidelines to determine a recommended range of months in prison for the jude to consider.
U.S. District Judge Richard Howell has asked for the Pre-Sentencing Report of Winifred Jiau, who was sentenced last week to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff.
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The Pre-Sentencing Report is prepared by the government in advance of sentencing to brief the judge on its position as to the number of years it believes a person deserves in accordance with Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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In the two years after the Booker ruling, sentences of blacks were on average 15.2% longer than the sentences of similarly situated whites, according to the Sentencing Commission report.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission's new report on federal cocaine sentencing policy was delivered to Congress on Tuesday.
The Sentencing Commission released a similar report in 2010.
The Sentencing Project recently released a useful report about various legislative measures in 24 states designed to reduce prison populations and spending.
Introducing his amendment on the first day of report stage on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, crossbencher and QC Lord Pannick insisted the change would not cost anything because the duty would only apply "within the resources made available" by the bill.
In the Lords, it's question time for half an hour - and then the House embarks on the first of four and a half days of report stage scrutiny of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
He was speaking during day two of report-stage debate on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill on 1 November 2011.
In its report, the commission recommended that federal judges give sentencing guidelines more weight, and that appeals courts more closely scrutinize sentences that fall beyond them.
She appeared for sentencing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo and must report to prison July 8 unless her lawyer appeals.
The report's criticisms come amid doubt over Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's proposals to reform sentencing and rehabilitation.
Lord Lloyd put forward an amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to "restore" that position, during a fifth and final day of report stage on 20 March 2012.
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