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Pepper providing a bit of spice to SCOTUS sentencing docket

By Douglas A. Berman

Here at the National Law Journal,  Marcia Coyle has a new piece on the Pepper federal sentencing case on the Supreme Court's docket for the upcoming term.  The piece is headlined "Brief of the Week: Conflict over rehabilitation and resentencing," and here are excerpts: The [Pepper] case offers the justices an opportunity to provide some guidance to sentencing judges about how much weight to give an offender's successful rehabilitation if he or she must be resentenced following appeals.... Pepper ... actually sought prison time in order to get into a 500-hour drug treatment program offered at a federal prison in Yankton, S.D. The judge sentenced him to 24 months in prison so he could qualify for the drug program. In 2005, he finished his prison sentence and began five years of supervised release...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).