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When Judge Posner asks and SCOTUS grants, the USSC responds

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to not a cool new research report appearing on the US Sentencing Commission's website.  The report is available at this link, and here is how it is described: In response to a suggestion in a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, United States v. Chambers, 473 F.3d 724 (7th Cir. 2007), cert. granted, __ U.S. __ , 128 S. Ct. 2046 (2008), the United States Sentencing Commission undertook a data analysis of federal escape cases to inform the legal question of whether the crime of escape qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (the ?ACCA?). This report summarizes the legal question at issue and describes the methodology and results of the analysis undertaken by the Commission...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).