tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57039342011-04-21T19:02:24.048-04:00Criminal Defense LawyerCriminal Defense Lawyer BLOG. Information, news, resources and articles concerning criminal law and criminal defense. Includes criminal lawyer search.Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1126654034978087142005-09-13T19:27:00.000-04:002005-09-13T19:27:15.016-04:00Verio Web Hosting - Continuing the job of the Bureau of PrisonsUsalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1125862520041965502005-09-04T15:06:00.000-04:002005-09-04T15:35:21.016-04:00The response of the Federal Government to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina is CriminalMichael DavisIt is appalling length of time it has taken the Federal Government to support and aid the people, state and local governments in the states ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. I heard the Governor or Alabama say on CNN, how on Sunday before Katrina made landfall, how he begged people to evacuate the Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1114422129023259882005-04-25T05:42:00.000-04:002005-04-25T05:42:09.023-04:00U.S. Prison Population Soars in 2003, '04
Published: 4/24/05
WASHINGTON (AP) - Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nation's prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents, the government reported Sunday.
By last June 30, there were 48,000 more inmates, or 2.3 percent, more than the year before, according to the Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1113300214440191632005-04-12T06:03:00.000-04:002005-04-12T06:03:34.440-04:00Judge orders Stewart to serve sentenceAPR. 12 5:26 A.M. ET-Martha Stewart's bid for an early release -- or at least to be able to leave home more often for work -- was dashed by a federal judge who ordered her to serve the full five months of house arrest.Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1112141017379036732005-03-29T19:01:00.000-05:002005-03-29T19:11:09.560-05:00Famed O.J. Lawyer Cochran Dies in L.A.LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., 67, the charismatic attorney who became famous in the successful defense of football star O.J. Simpson on murder charges, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles of a brain tumor, spokespeople said.Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1111007435689045172005-03-16T16:10:00.000-05:002005-03-16T16:10:35.690-05:00Judge Sentences Scott Peterson to DieREDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A judge today imposed the death penalty against Scott Peterson for killing his pregnant wife, who disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002 and washed ashore four months later.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Alfred A. Delucchi called the crimes "cruel, uncaring, heartless and callous."
Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1110917618629777932005-03-15T15:13:00.000-05:002005-03-15T15:16:02.673-05:00Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers found guilty on all counts - Mar. 15, 2005Faces long prison sentence after being convicted on all nine counts in accounting fraud.Usalmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245985470413729378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1109600370213100502005-02-28T09:19:00.000-05:002005-02-28T09:19:30.213-05:00BOP: Prison Types & General Information: The Bureau operates institutions at five different security levels in order to confine offenders in an appropriate manner. Security levels are based on such features as the presence of external patrols, towers, security barriers, or detection devices; the type of housing within the institution; internal security features; and the staff-to-inmate ratio. Usalmdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1106062441851237082005-01-18T10:34:00.000-05:002005-02-21T09:58:23.360-05:00Supreme Court Overturns Federal Sentencing Guidelines - Jan 14, 2005A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.Usalmdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1096383019384268442004-09-28T10:50:00.000-04:002004-09-28T10:50:19.383-04:00A Blakely Primer: An End to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines?A very good and well written article on the state of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.Usalmdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1095781494791339382004-09-21T10:55:00.000-04:002005-03-02T08:56:28.863-05:00Waiting To Go To Prison, Worse Than Being In PrisonMichael DavisSeptember 22, 2004While Martha Stewart awaits a bed at the minimum-security prison camps for women in Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla, what is going through her mind? What does she think about? How is it affecting her mentally?If you have ever been in the situation of being convicted of a crime and you are waiting to go to prison or Usalmdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1079021126177100192004-03-11T11:05:00.000-05:002004-03-11T11:07:43.403-05:00U.S. Sentencing Commission - Home PageUsalmdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703934.post-1079020610490646572004-03-11T10:56:00.000-05:002004-03-11T11:00:50.110-05:00In light of Martha Stewart's conviction in Federal Court here are some terms used recently:
federal sentencing guideline - passed by Congress in 1987 and signed into law by President Reagan. Maximum and minimum length of potential prison terms that fall into a mathematical range, or grid, that is determined by a combination of the charges against the defendant and that individual’s past criminalUsalmdnoreply@blogger.com