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"Sniper Fights Death Sentence; Lawyers Argue Muhammad Had Mitigating Factors"
"Sniper Fights Death Sentence; Lawyers Argue Muhammad Had Mitigating Factors": The Washington Post contains this article today.

Aggravating and Mitigating Factors

The Online Court
The Online Court is a brand new siteproviding stacks of useful information related to 'charges, scenarios, outcomes and sentences' in the Magistrates Court.Information is arranged by charge and presented ina question and answer format: which court will hear the case?; what is the guideline sentence?; what are the aggravating factors?; what are the mitigating factors?; [...

Death Penalty Upheld in Oklahoma Double Murder Case
U.S. v. Fields, -- F.3d --, 2008 WL 483281 (10th Cir. 2/25/08) - the federal government properly exercised concurrent territorial jurisdiction in this death penalty double murder case on national forest land...

"171 Easy Mitigating Factors" Now Available
I don't normally include plugs for products, but this one is unique. For many years, Michael Levine has been compiling arguments to be used in getting lesser sentences in federal court...

About Face!
United States v. Dominguez, No. 05-7005-cr (2d Cir. February 15, 2008, amended March 20, 2008) (Miner, Sack, Hall, CJJ)Last month, when we wrote up this case, we noted with alarm the circuit?s holding that, for cases where the defendant faced a mandatory minimum but provided substantial assistance to the government, under § 3553(e) ?any reduction [in sentence] may be based only on substantial assistance to the government and on no other mitigating considerations...