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Criminal Law

1976

University of Washington School of Law

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Sentencing Study, Dan Kilpatric, Jack Brummel Nov 1976

Sentencing Study, Dan Kilpatric, Jack Brummel

Washington Law Review

Sentencing constitutes the critical connection between the criminal law and the penal system. Therefore, any analysis of sentencing involves fundamental and perplexing questions about the purposes and problems of the criminal justice system. This comment will focus on one of those problems: the exercise of judicial discretion in sentencing.


Criminal Law—Multiple Punishment Under The Organized Crime Control Act—A Need For Reexamination Of Wharton's Rule And Double Jeopardy—Iannelli V. United States, 420 U.S. 770 (1975), Christopher L. Koch Nov 1976

Criminal Law—Multiple Punishment Under The Organized Crime Control Act—A Need For Reexamination Of Wharton's Rule And Double Jeopardy—Iannelli V. United States, 420 U.S. 770 (1975), Christopher L. Koch

Washington Law Review

Robert lannelli and seven other petitioners were charged with conspiring to violate and violating 18 U.S.C. § 1955, a federal gambling statute which makes it a crime for five or more persons to conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own a gambling business prohibited by state law. Each petitioner was convicted of both offenses, and each was sentenced under both counts. On appeal the petitioners argued that conviction of both conspiracy and the substantive offense was precluded by Wharton's Rule, a common law exception to the principle that a substantive offense and a conspiracy to commit the offense are distinct …