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Rethinking Criminal Law And Family Status , Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Jennifer M. Collins
Rethinking Criminal Law And Family Status , Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Jennifer M. Collins
Faculty Scholarship
In our recent book, Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties (OUP 2009), we examined and critiqued a number of ways in which the criminal justice system uses family status to distribute benefits or burdens to defendants. In their review essays, Professors Alafair Burke, Alice Ristroph & Melissa Murray identify a series of concerns with the framework we offer policymakers to analyze these family ties benefits or burdens. We think it worthwhile not only to clarify where those challenges rest on misunderstandings or confusions about the central features of our views, but also to show the …
Defending Demaree: The Ex Post Facto Clause's Lack Of Control Over The Federal Sentencing Guidelines After Booker, Daniel M. Levy
Defending Demaree: The Ex Post Facto Clause's Lack Of Control Over The Federal Sentencing Guidelines After Booker, Daniel M. Levy
Fordham Law Review
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines violated a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial because they allowed a judge to depart from a mandatory range based on facts not presented to a jury. As a solution, the Court modified the Guidelines to be “advisory,” yet curiously held that sentences were still subject to appellate review for reasonableness. Given this tension, U.S. courts of appeals are split on whether the Guidelines are “laws,” subject to the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution. This Note argues that the Guidelines are advisory, given …