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SVP Recommitments and Indeterminate Terms, Take 2
As noted in a previous post, two California appellate courts recently concluded that individuals subject to two-year sexually violent predator (SVP) civil commitments at the time the electorate passed Prop 83 can face the prospect of indeterminate terms upon expiration...

Markel on Indeterminate Sentencing
Dan Markel (Florida State University College of Law) has posted Luck or Law? The Constitutional Case Against Indeterminate Sentencing on SSRN...

"Luck or Law? The Constitutional Case Against Indeterminate Sentencing"
The title of this post is the title of this provocative new abstract by Professor Dan Markel now up at at SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the majority of states indeterminate sentencing schemes prevail ? under which the decision...

Armed bank robbery sentence remanded for application of incorrect enhancement in original sentence and failure to justify alternative sentence.
United States v. Smalley, No. 06-4552 (3d Cir. Feb.29, 2008). At sentencing in this armed bank robbery case, the government and defense argued that the defendant should receive a three-level enhancement for "brandishing or possessing" a weapon under U...

"Heinous, Atrocious, and Cruel: Apprendi, Indeterminate Sentencing, and the Meaning of Punishment"
The title of this post is the title of this new article on SSRN, and the article is a must-read for me simply because the title incorporates so many of my favorite jurisprudential buzz-words...

Second Circuit: Copyright license of indeterminate term improperly read to be perpetual
In this appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, the Second Circuit reversed the dismissal of a copyright claim based on ambiguity in a contract, but affirmed dismissal of the antitrust claims because the plaintiff's proposed market definition was not plausible...

A friend of mine let me borrow car which I believed was his, but which he had stolen. I was driving the car and saw police sirens. Since I was already on the run from something else, i ran from the police in the car. Whe
The best advice I can give you at this point is to consult with you legal adviso...

If a guilty party is sentenced to two terms to be served concurrently,does this mean the sentence is served one term after the other, or both are served at the same time thus reducing the length to be served
When more than one sentence is to be run concurrently, this means that that all ...

My husband has been encarcerated for more than a year still awaiting to be sentenced for bank robbery, there were other people involved but have not been apprehended, how much longer will he have to wait for his sentence
Penal sentencing only follows the acceptance of a guilty plea or finding of guil...

My son is 16 and is charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling unarmed, if convicted what would the sentence be?
Are you asking "What is the worst he could get/" Depends on the State ...