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Brief of Amici Curiae Americans For Prosperity Foundation, Dream Corps Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Niskanen Center, Right On Crime, The R Street Institute, and The Sentencing Project in Support of Petitioner.
Coalition letter to the House Judiciary Committee regarding legislation to address the judicial discretion that allows for factoring into sentencing conduct acquitted by a jury, as proposed in Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 (H.R. 1621).
Brief of Amici Curiae Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Dream Corps Justice, and the R Street Institute in Support of Petitioner.
Coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding a renewed proposal to ban judges from determining sentences influenced by conduct acquitted by a jury, as addressed in the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 (S. 601).
Coalition letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2019 (S. 2566).
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in support of Appellant.
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner (on Petition for Writ of Certiorari).
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner (on petition for a writ of certiorari).
