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American Bar Association letter filed with the U.S. Sentencing Commission on August 15, 2005 in connection with its decision to add the privilege waiver issue to the list of tentative priorities for the 2005-2006 Sentencing Guidelines amendment cycle.
Comments submitted to the U.S. Sentencing Commission by NACDL's informal Coalition on the Privilege Waiver Amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines regarding priorities in the current (2006) amendment cycle.
Letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding USSC priorities in the current (2014) amendment cycle.
Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding post-Booker decisions, and specifically related to anabolic steroids. Includes testimony from and article by NACDL member Rick Collins.
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
President Lisa Wayne's written statement to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding sentencing practices since the U.S. v. Booker decision.
President Lisa Wayne's letter to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding federal sentencing practices and the U.S. Sentencing Commission since the U.S. v. Booker decision.
NACDL President Cynthia Orr's written statement to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding mandatory minimum sentencing in federal law.
Coalition letter to leadership of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security regarding post-Booker and -Fanfan criminal sentencing.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of Petitioner.
Argument: The Court should excise Section 3742(g)(2) from the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and hold that 18 U.S.C. Section 3553(a) permits district courts to consider post-sentencing rehabilitation at resentencing proceedings.
Brief of Aleph Institute
Argument: Circuits’ disparate approaches to reasonableness review undermine the benefits of appellate review of sentences. The goal of the sentencing reform act commend review of the statutory maximum sentence imposed in this case.
U.S. v. Tomko, Third Circuit En Banc Opinion upholding a sentence of probation, which was a downward variance based upon Gall, in a tax evasion case (April 2009)
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