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U.S. v. Booker, 04-104; U. S. v. Fanfan, 04-105-The Supreme Court decided laws that set mandatory guidelines for sentences for criminal violations violate the 6th Amendment guarantee of a jury trial. The ruling applied to Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which set mandatory penalties for...

A list of resources is provided to assist journalists in locating information on various aspects of sentencing, including the public's appeal for longer sentences which manifest in the "three strikes you're out" laws. Other researchers are concerned with the question of prisons being filled...

A Justice Department representative drew hostile questions from some U.S. Sentencing Commission members Tuesday as she tried to persuade them not to make their recent easing of crack cocaine sentences retroactive.Gretchen C.F. Shappert, U.S. attorney in Charlotte, N.C., told the independent panel that sets sentencing...

A court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in prison on Monday and denied them the right to vote or run for public office for inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.The prosecution had called for death sentences against the defendants,...

In the following essay, Malloy offers textual analysis of Distinction 44 of the Sentences, which concerns the problem of obedience to civil authority.

In the following essay, Zier examines Lombard's use of the Glossa ordinaria in composing the Sentences.

In the following excerpt, Langholm examines how certain commentators on the Sentences dealt with the terms absolute and conditional will.