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Halloween isn't the only time we like to dress up defenseless babies and transform those little ones into something else. Thanksgiving is the perfect time to dress up your babe in the spirit of the holiday! Turkeys, pilgrims, Indians, pumpkins -- you name it, someone has done it. And you should too!
What's more adorable than a baby sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table dressed as part of the meal? Not your Aunt Sally, that's for sure.
In case you're looking for inspiration, or just looking for some cuteness to get into the holiday spirit, here are 5 of the cutest babies dressed for Thanksgiving.
This first ridiculously cute shot is for those of you who want to go classic. This turkey costume covers all of your bases, and clearly is warm and toasty on a crisp fall day. Just don't be tempted to put your little one in the oven.
That's one sleepy pilgrim! Someone better wake him up for turkey. Or just let him lay there looking adorable.
Yes, this is a turkey, laying on a bed of lettuce. I love how mom and dad make a note that their turkey platter had never been used before when they served up their baby.
All you need is a hat, a box, and one cute naked baby to make this pumpkin work. Can we get one of those shipped to us in time for Thanksgiving?
Another pilgrim, but this one is ready to chow down. As seen clearly by his bib.
Do you dress up your little ones for Thanksgiving?
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Hilltop Ski Area opened for the season Saturday, "about a week behind our normal opening," according to CEO Steve Remme.
Hilltop is shifting into its usual operating hours seven days a week: 3-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.
Only the Caribou run is open from top to bottom, after stop-and-go snowmaking operations because of recent warm weather in Anchorage.
Snowmakers at Hilltop Ski Area spent Thanksgiving Day on the job so skiers could spend the holiday weekend on the slopes.

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October 27, 2010
Simply Fall: Water Marble Pt 2
Look what I did to my water marble! Stamped over it and added some Matte Magic topcoat to it. Only thing that sucks is that my camera couldn't pick up how awesome my mani looks right now.
After adding mate magic.
I had meant to post this yesterday, but with all of the high winds messing with our Internet I choose to wait until I know my post wouldn't get messed up. The first image is my mani all cleaned up and pretty, as is this last one. :) I really like how this turned out. Really wish my camera could capture the awesome completely. I used China Glaze- 2030 for the stamping on this.
Happy Polishing!
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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. - The Smith College lacrosse team held off a late comeback effort, defeating Mount Holyoke College by an 8-6 margin in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Wednesday evening. The win moves the Pioneers to 9-7 with a 3-4 conference mark, while the Lyons slip to 7-8 and 2-5 in the NEWMAC.
The visiting Pioneers jumped out to an early advantage as first year midfielder Reese Gittelman (Ocean City, Md./Worcester Preparatory) buried a nice feed from senior attack Chloe Harris (Alexandria, Va./West Potomac) at the 28:38 mark. Smith gained a 2-0 advantage just over a minute later as senior captain Emily Biggs (Florence, Mass./Northampton) picked up the loose ball following a scramble in front and buried it.
Mount Holyoke countred at the 22:13 mark though as first year attack Abby Baldwin (Florence, Mass./Northampton) scored her first of the contest and 56th tally on the season. The Lyons tied the match at 2-all with 18:41 on the clock as sophomore attack Meryl Phair (Stockbridge, Mass./Monument Mountain Regional) netted a free position of her own.
Despite the momentum, the Lyons saw the Pioneers rebound quickly as Biggs recorded back-to-back goals, followed by a free position marker with 30 seconds left by sophomore midfielder Bryn Murray (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) for a 6-2 lead at halftime.
Second half action opened in a big way for the Lyons as Baldwin recorded back-to-back goals less than 53 seconds apart at 23:55 to cut the deficit to 6-4. Both goals were assisted by junior captain Julianna Rankin (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis), who then scored on the free position at 18:49 to close the gap further at 6-5.
The Pioneers countered with 6:46 to play as senior attack Clelie Fielding (Francestown, N.H./High Mowing) made it a 2-goal edge (7-5), but the Lyons struck back once more as Rankin converted an outstanding pass from Baldwin at 6:29 to make it a 7-6 game. Gittelman scored her second of the contest with 2:41 to go, putting the visitors back up by two (8-6) and despite a lengthy possession, MHC was unable to get any further.
Smith was paced by Biggs, who scored three goals, added five ground balls, four draw controls and a game-best six caused turnovers. Gittelman added two goals and two assists with two ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover, while Murray had a goal and an assist, also adding five ground balls with four draw controls. In goal, first year Alyssa Schams (South Lyon, Mich./South Lyon) posted the victory, stopping seven shots on the night.
For Mount Holyoke, Baldwin had three goals and an assist with five ground balls, a draw control and a caused turnover. Rankin added two goals and two assists with five ground balls and two draw controls, while junior defender Kathryn Violette (Yokosuka City, Japan/Yokohama International School) also recorded a game-best five ground balls. In goal, junior Mia Wysocki (Longmeadow, Mass./Longmeadow) shouldered the loss with seven saves.
Smith owned a 20-16 edge in shots for the contest, while both squads tied with a 27-27 margin in ground balls. The Pioneers also had a 10-6 margin in draw controls, while MHC went 3-5 and Smith was 2-3 on the free position.
Mount Holyoke returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Babson at 12pm in the final regular season contest for both teams. The game also marks Senior Day for the Lyons three members of the Class of 2019. Smith will also hosts its regular season finale and Senior Day on Saturday, welcoming MIT at 12pm.


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Asking kids out-of-the-box questions is a great way to get them thinking on their toes and really using their imaginations. These questions will help you spark dozens and dozens of conversations with your favourite little people.
Ask one now, and one at dinner, and before bedtime. These questions are a fantastic way to learn just a wee bit more about those funny little (and big!) people you love. Engage in a healthy debate of books or movies? Why fireworks are better than the circus. And best yet, just talk.


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Just as I decide to write a blog about mothering I read in Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth' that we as evolved human beings are meant to move beyond our roles and into being. Uh oh where does that leave me? Other people can blog about yachting or chocolate making (is there really a chocolate making one – I want to read it). But at the age of 29 with three boys, ages 6, 4 and 2, the thing I've put well over 10,000 hours into is being a good, old mum. Now after reading Eckhart Tolle the other night when I was atizz looking for inspiration for my mummy life (you know when you open a favourite book to any page for guidance) I am now questioning my identity as a mother.
Tolle writes (pages 90 – 100),
'What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play.'
But that's me. I'm so over identified with being a mum that I'm here writing a blog about it. If I were to describe my day it would be all about the children. Sleeping with a four year old's feet in my face. Being chased on the street by a close friend, very sweet but misguided who was shouting at my 6 year old son for taking 30 helium balloons from a birthday party. My 2 ½ year old causing havoc at the Norwood police station trying to climb over the counter and asking every police man he saw, 'What you doing?' whilst I was opening a case for my lost cell phone. And that was just yesterday.
Everywhere I go I'm a mother with a kid, and when I'm not with my sweet boys I'm a guilty mother doing her own thing.
Tolle says,
'When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role. It is the beginning of freedom from the role. When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously.'
Oops! I'm clearly unconscious.
'Those pre-established roles may give you a somewhat comforting sense of identity, but ultimately, you lose yourself in them.'
Double oops! But at least it's not only me. This loss of self according to Tolle is common in hierarchical organisations such as the military, the church, government and large companies. Furthermore there are 'social archetypes' which he describes. One of which is the 'middle class housewife (not as prevalent as it used to be, but still widespread…)'
Being a housewife spreads to me. I can't believe I fit into that social archetype – but– deep gulp – I do.
Here's the inspirational part that did some good for my seeking spirit.
It's not meant to be that way.
Tolle says,
'The all-important question is: Are you able to fulfill the function of being a parent and fulfill it well, without identifying with that function, that is, without it becoming a role?'
So can I now write this mothering blog as long as I don't make it my role, my being, my everything??? I wince to myself. I'm a mother but not just a mother. I'm a writer – another role, my preferred label. But I'm more than a writer.
I think I'm going to have to read the rest of 'A New Earth' to learn how to move beyond my ego roles of mother and writer into the consciousness of being me, Sarah (is my name also a role, a label? Mmmm..can definitely be over thought). Can I do it? I have a feeling that it's a long process. Actually I know it to be a fact. Recreating new neural pathways of beingness. But that's another topic to blog about. Until then…
Meanwhile I'd better go and relieve the grandparents from my three boys who are busy scrapbooking the world cup by gluing newspaper clippings to the couches.


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Harry Teague Announces Funding for Affordable Housing
Washington, DC - June 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Harry Teague announced that the Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation has been awarded a grant of $138,058 through the USDA's Rural Development program.
Harry Teague Announces Affordable-Housing Funding for Silver City
Washington, DC - June 10, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Harry Teague announced that the town of Silver City will receive nearly $600,000 to build new affordable housing units
Jicarilla Apache and Mescalero Apache Nations to receive Housing Grants
Washington D.C. - May 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Harry Teague announced two Indian Housing Block Grants, administered through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Apache Nations in New Mexico.
Bingaman: Santo Domingo Housing Authority Awarded Housing Funds
WASHINGTON, DC - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman reported today that Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority has been awarded a $1.02 million grant to help meet the pueblos housing needs.
Bingaman: New Mexico Receives Significant Housing Investments
WASHINGTON, DC - April 16, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that the State of New Mexico and the City of Albuquerque will benefit from over $34.66 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Three New Mexico Organizations Awarded Housing Grants
WASHINGTON, DC - March 17, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that three New Mexico organizations have been awarded federal grants to support efforts to revitalize and sustain community development and promote and preserve affordable housing for New Mexico residents.
Rep. Luján Cosponsors Legislation to Help Military Homeowners
Washington, DC - March 15, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Ben Ray Luján has cosponsored legislation to help military homeowners who have had to relocate to a new base and sell their homes during a downturn in the housing market
HUD Awards $325,000 in Grants to Housing Authorities in New Mexico to Help Public...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - January 12, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded a total of $325,403 to six New Mexico housing authorities to help public housing residents find jobs that lead them toward economic independence.
Heinrich Announces $7.8 Million in Affordable Housing Funding For Albuquerque Through Recovery Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 26, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Representative Martin Heinrich (NM-1) announced today that the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (NMMFA) is receiving more than $7.8 million to support construction of housing for low-income families in Albuquerque through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
HUD approves four New Mexico cities' Recovery Act plans to revitalize neighborhoods and create...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - July 16, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today approved plans for four New Mexico cities to use funds totaling $1,652,406 to help stabilize and revive local neighborhoods, rehabilitate affordable housing, and improve key public facilities.
Green and Affordable Chuska Apartments Open in Gallup, New Mexico
LOS ANGELES, CA - September 26, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — Once celebrated as an integral railroad town of the west, the city of Gallup can now be hailed as having one of the few environmentally responsive, affordable housing developments in the state of New Mexico.
First Ever Carbon Offsets Sale Aids Development of Green Affordable Housing
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - July 30, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — Silver Gardens, an environmentally responsible affordable housing development, is the first in the nation to...
Fidelity Investments Selects Forest City's Mesa del Sol for New Operations Center
Financial Services Company Will Create 1,250 New Jobs Momentum is Building, Mesa del Sol is Living up to Promise ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. & CLEVELAND, Jan 17,...
Bingaman: New Mexico Pueblos to Benefit From Federal Funds
WASHINGTON, November 08, 2007 – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that four New Mexico pueblos will benefit from a total of $2.6 million in...


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Protecting the civil rights of all Americans and keeping our families and communities safe is one of the most important responsibilities of government. We must continue the progress we have made in securing equality for all Americans, providing our law enforcement officers with the tools they need to keep Americans safe, and protecting civil liberties in all of our diverse communities.
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The drying process is not fully complete until each the substances that were affected by water or secondary damage accomplish our drying goals, a.k.a a sterile normal significance receiving a moisture reading of a material that's been unaffected.
Our company guarantee a potent dry standard by applying this reading. It's set by utilizing an untouched substance and comparing it to the affected giving us a goal that has to be achieved. This allows our experts to use it as a benchmark as it lets them see ordinary moisture levels in the environment.
The water removal step eliminates nearly all the water out of your home or property. By doing a comprehensive water extraction, Experts help decrease the drying period and help to prevent mold and secondary flood damage. We use strong pumps and truck-mounted vacuum parts to swiftly eliminate thousands or tens of thousands of gallons of water from your property.
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Highly trained emergency repair technicians will begin the water mitigation process almost immediately. Based on the whole amount of water, we could use strong submersible pumps in addition to industrial power, wet/dry vacuums. This measure can help decrease drying time and helps to prevent mold and secondary water damage.
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Flood Professionals inspect the carpet and pad and determine if it should be eliminated to protect the subfloor.
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Dirt detectors, hygrometers, and other meters measure the size of moisture modification.
Infrared cameras could be used to locate"hidden" water inviting walls and ceilings.
Submersible and gas-powered pumps are used for continuous pumping of high-level water.
Truck-mounted and mobile extraction elements perform effective water removal.
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Our Longwood Court Restoration Company will manipulate temperature and relative humidity to eliminate the residual moisture. We utilize specialized water drying equipment, such as industrial air movers and dehumidifiers, to remove water retained by construction materials and other hard-to-access moisture. We carefully track the improvement using moisture meters prior to the materials return to appropriate drying goals.
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We assess that the moisture levels to monitor the drying process.
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Industrial-grade dehumidifiers help prevent secondary water damage such as swelling and a great deal of floors, walls, and furniture.
High-speed air movers create warmth round walls, carpets, pads, and furniture, which accelerates the flow of moisture.
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We check for the source of water in your home and business and prevent it. The water supply must be stopped before the drying process can begin.
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- We Identify the Kind of Water
Our Flood Damage Restoration Experts in Longwood Court, Louisiana have to establish the classification and type of water to revive your home firmly to business specifications. The form of water contamination will determine the particular restoration procedures used to restore your home.
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We identify the amount of the water damage and inspect the premises
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God's Neighborhood Plan. My husband and I joke that we live in "the slums of Water Valley.
" Starter homes, weedy yards, and porches with peeling paint dot our neighborhood. Across the way, Water Valley shows off million dollar houses and signs warning that the walking paths and fishing ponds are theirs alone. When our children were growing up, two dozen other children their ages lived on the block. They played in our yard and rang the doorbell to ask for bubbles. Now fewer than ten children live in the houses around us, and we know only three of them well. Renters occupy nearly half the houses. The Answer to My Own Prayer? A few years ago my husband, Tony, and I realized our concern for our neighbors had gone dormant.
That night Tony and I decided to pray for the people on our street. When a tornado struck our town, we were grateful that we had only minor damage compared to those who lost their home and possessions. Much of our concern focused on the new couple next door. Be You. "Lord, what about this man?"
(John 21:21) Peter asked Jesus this question when he learned that Jesus had ordained very difficult things for Peter's future. So Peter wanted to know about John. Was Jesus going to give John a better deal? Jesus responded, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? "What is that to you?" The fallen part of our nature doesn't look at others and see the glory of imago dei (Genesis 1:27). Oh the tyranny of selfish comparison! "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 7:25)! Your Emotions Are a Gauge, Not a Guide. Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:13).
Your rest is coming. Sooner than you know you will receive your "imperishable, undefiled, and unfading inheritance" (1 Peter 1:4). And when it comes you will understand why your faith was more precious than gold (1 Peter 1:7). This is where Peter wants your hope to fully rest. But today is a time for war, not peace. Your battle today will not be against "flesh and blood" but the deceitful forces of evil (Ephesians 6:12) and the deceitfulness of indwelling sin (Hebrews 3:13). God designed your emotions to be gauges, not guides. But because our emotions are wired into our fallen natures as well as into our regenerated natures, sin and Satan have access to them and will use them to try and manipulate us to act faithlessly. God Will Always Give You More Than You Can Handle.
"God will never give you more than you can handle."
I just heard that on Christian radio the other day. Before that, I heard it in a sermon. It sounds like Gospel truth, doesn't it? It's a nice, warm, fuzzy thought. No matter what you are going through, don't worry! Except it's not in the Bible. That wouldn't be such a bad thing, except that the opposite is actually true. God has a habit of giving people more than they can handle. In fact, I'd say that God has to give you more than you can handle. God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle…Unless You're One of These Guys When people say "God will never give you more than you can handle," they're misquoting a line from 1 Corinthians. When I read my Bible, I see all kinds of people who were given more than they could handle.
Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Job, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Mary, Martha, Paul. Pastor James MacDonald. Dec 04 2012 Today is not a rehearsal for anything.
Today is your life. It's who you are and who you're following and what matters most and where you're headed…today. The person you will be is the person you are becoming today. So don't waste it. The challenge you face today is your chance to conquer as Jesus did. The fear you feel today is your chance to be strong in the Lord. The tempest all around is driving you out of the storm and onto your knees. Today matters more than you know. It's not about others. Today is the day to love the people closest to you and forgive the people furthest from you. Today is the day to embrace the humanity all around—as Jesus would, if He were in your shoes. He asks you to put yesterday behind, because it can't change today. Five Promises for Your Bible Reading and Prayer. Do you consistently seek God in the word and prayer?
Or have you tried again and again, become discouraged, and given up? We are deep enough into January that this is the story for many us. Resolutions have began to stall. A Surprising Way to Become More Generous.


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March 15, 2019
Rounding up some commentary on Gov Newsom's formal halting of executions in California
Given that there were no executions in California during the second term of Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger or during the two terms of Gov Jerry Brown, I was not expecting to see California's execution chamber suddenly getting a lot of use once Gavin Newsom took over. But, as reported here, just two months into office, Gov Newsom formalize matters by ordering an "executive moratorium ... in the forms of a reprieve for all people sentenced to death in California." Here is a smattering of commentary about this move:
From The Atlantic, "Will the U.S. Finally End the Death Penalty?: In the past, abolition efforts faced a backlash—but Gavin Newsom's moratorium may be different."
"From the Mercury News, "Newsom move effectively ends death penalty in US: The closing of California's death row, America's largest, has more than just symbolic importance"
- From the Los Angeles Times, "Politicians don't normally overrule voters. On the death penalty, Gavin Newsom just did"
From The National Review, "Gavin Newsom's Death-Penalty Overreach"
From the San Diego Union-Tribune, "How Newsom is ignoring California voters with death penalty reprieve"
From the San Diego Union-Tribune, "How Newsom is leading California forward on the death penalty"
From the San Francisco Forum, "Gov. Newsom's death penalty moratorium undercuts the voters' will"
March 15, 2019 in Clemency and Pardons, Death Penalty Reforms, Who Sentences | Permalink | Comments (0)
March 14, 2019
Finding lessons in the Manafort sentencing and California's capital moratorium
Brandon Garrett has this great new little piece at The New Republic under the headline "Beyond Hard Time: What the disparate reactions to Manafort's sentence and California's death penalty ban reveal about our broken system." I recommend the piece in full, and here is a taste:
Is it hypocritical to call for less severe sentences for "regular" criminals while decrying leniency for white-collar defendants? Those debates are now roiling the pundit world, but as a longtime student of disparities in judicial outcomes, I find the basis of the comparison deeply misleading. The juxtaposition of the Manafort and Newsom stories should prompt us, rather, to question anew the impulse to frame years in prison as the most appropriate response to our most pressing social problems....
Instead of enacting more draconian sentences, we must invest in white-collar law enforcement the same way we invest in other measures to protect public safety. Consider this: the Internal Revenue Service has had its budget cut over the past decade to the point where audits have decreased by 42 percent and the number of tax fraud cases the agency brings has been cut by nearly 25 percent. Under such lax enforcement, tax fraud schemes — of the very sort repeatedly carried out by Paul Manafort — are able to thrive. And while better white-collar crime enforcement is a key, neglected foundation of public safety, the rationale for more sustained and concerted pursuit of white-collar criminals doesn't end there. These offenses also pose much broader hazards to our well-being. They endanger the national economy — and conspiring with other countries endangers national security — on a far greater scale than the harms wrought by drug possession and street crimes.
The way out of the double standard we apply to punishment is to reject the notion that true justice inheres in strictly hewing to a one-size-fits-all model of criminal sentencing. To begin using law enforcement as a means of meaningful social reform, we need, rather, to consistently apply the same standards of enforcement to all types of crime: police far more, prosecute and punish far less, utilize evidence-based treatment, and ask that violators give back and make the community whole. Harsh sentences don't deter crime, but changing the focus of our enforcement systems just might.
March 14, 2019 in Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing, White-collar sentencing | Permalink | Comments (4)
"The Source of the Stink: A Private Delegation Framework for Recidivism Risk Assessment"
The title of this post is the title of this recent paper authored by Andrea Nishi now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:
This paper explores the use of privately developed risk assessment algorithms in criminal sentencing, arguing that these tools are developed in a way that hinders the enforcement of constitutional protections and gives private algorithm developers undue influence in sentencing determinations. Using the private delegation doctrine, which limits Congress's ability to delegate to private actors, the paper aims to strengthen the state statutory frameworks that govern the use of these tools to restore accountability to the sentencing process.
March 14, 2019 in Procedure and Proof at Sentencing, Technocorrections, Who Sentences | Permalink | Comments (0)
March 13, 2019
Mapping out next possible celebrity sentencings in wake of indictment in college admissions scandal
Now that Paul Manafort's sentencings are concluded (basics here and here, new commentary from Ellen Podgor here), perhaps it is time to move on to the next high-profile "celebrity" white-collar case. Though few cases will have the political intrigue of the Manafort matter, there is plenty of star power surrounding the new indictments yesterday revealing a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits.
For various reasons, I generally tend to avoid making sentencing calculations or predictions before there are convictions. But this new piece at Law&Crime, headlined "'I Would Make an Example': Legal Experts Weigh in on Prison Time Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman Could Face," has various experts already chiming in. Here is part of the piece:
Huffman allegedly paid The Key Foundation Worldwide $15,000 "to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her oldest daughter," according to the government's lengthy indictment. Loughlin allegedly made $500,000 worth of fake donations to the same charity in order to secure fake rowing profiles for both of her daughters–when neither daughter actually rowed.
So, are these parents actually facing prison time or might they manage to skate? Law&Crime asked the experts and they had answers.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and current Pace Law Professor Mimi Rocah thinks a little time behind bars is within the realm of possibility. "Given the amount of money involved for each of them, particularly Loughlin, and the sophistication of the scheme, they would likely be facing jail time," Rocah told Law&Crime. "However, it will be within the sentencing Judge's discretion as to whether to follow the guidelines or not and a lot of different factors will play into that."
CNN legal analyst, criminal defense attorney and University of Georgia Law Professor Page Pate ventured his guesses as to what any prospective sentences might look like for the embattled actresses. Over the course of a series of emails, Pate said the time served in each case would depend "mostly on the 'loss amount' (how much money the government can tie to the alleged fraud)" and explained that "federal sentencing guidelines for fraud are primarily based on the amount of money involved, how sophisticated the fraud was what role the person played in the alleged scheme, and whether they were the 'leader, middle, [or] low-end.'"
With that in mind, Pate estimated that Full House's Loughlin was facing "37-46 months if convicted at trial" and between "27-33 months [if she enters a] guilty plea." Since Huffman is alleged to have spent quite a bit less, Pate estimated that the Desperate Housewives actress was facing "12-18 months if convicted at trial" whereas she would be looking at "8-14 months (or possible probation)" if she were to plead guilty.
Julie Rendelman is a former prosecutor and currently a defense attorney working in New York City.... While noting that it was "a bit early" to say anything for sure about potential time behind bars, Rendelman said it was a distinct possibility due to the actress' high profiles. "My guess is that if the evidence is as strong as it appears, their attorneys will likely advise them to cooperate with the US attorney's office to provide information on other individuals in the scheme, and hope that their cooperation along with any potential mitigation will help them to avoid jail time," Rendelman said. "Keep in mind, that the government/presiding judge may want to make an example of them to deter the act of using wealth to manipulate the system."
March 13, 2019 in Celebrity sentencings, Offender Characteristics, Offense Characteristics, White-collar sentencing | Permalink | Comments (0)
Paul Manafort gets additional (consecutive) 43 months in prison at second sentencing, resulting in 7.5 year total term
As reported in this Politico piece, headlined "Paul Manafort's prison sentence was upped to seven-and-a-half years on Wednesday, bringing an end to Robert Mueller's most public legal battle and capping a spectacular fall for the globe-trotting GOP consultant and former chairman of the Trump campaign." Here is more:
It's the longest sentence by far for anyone ensnared in Mueller's nearly two-year-old probe. Manafort's punishment reached its final length after U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday gave Manafort an additional 43 months in prison for a series of lobbying and witness tampering crimes he pleaded guilty to last fall. Manafort also must serve nearly four years for his conviction in a jury trial for financial fraud crimes in Virginia.
Manafort, wearing a dark suit and seated in a wheelchair, issued a full-throated and blunt apology shortly before Jackson handed out his second — and final — prison sentence in the Mueller case. "I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that have gotten us here today," said Manafort, contrite and stone-faced.
But Jackson swiftly upbraided Manafort's penitence, insinuating that it was insincere and hinting that she believed Manafort had previously calibrated his statements to appeal to President Donald Trump for a pardon — the only way out of a multi-year prison sentence at this point for the ex-Trump aide, who turns 70 next month.
"Saying I'm sorry I got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency," Jackson said, exhaustively recounting Manafort's deception and propensity for hiding money in offshore accounts, ducking millions in U.S. taxes, tampering with witnesses and repeatedly failing to come clean when confronted with his behavior.
"Why?" she asked. "Not to support a family but to sustain a lifestyle at the most opulent and extravagant level," she said, a reference to the high-end suits, designer clothes, custom rugs and luxury cars that Manafort collected over the years. "More houses than one man can enjoy, more suits than one man can wear."...
Manafort made his plea to Jackson about charges brought in the D.C. court, which centered on his lobbying work in Ukraine and conspiring with a suspected Moscow-linked business associate to tamper with potential witnesses. But his shorter-than-anticipated Virginia sentence was hanging over the entire court proceedings.
Jackson stressed that she was not there for a "review or revision" of the Virginia sentence, which drew condemnation from some in the legal community who felt the punishment was unfairly brief, given the scope of the crimes and sentencing guidelines that called for Manafort to receive between about 19 and 24 years....
As a result, one major question facing Jackson, an Obama appointee, was whether she would make Manafort serve his D.C. sentence after he completes the punishment from his Virginia case, or whether she would allow him to serve them both concurrently. Manafort has been using a cane and wheelchair in his recent court appearances and has asked for leniency by citing his deteriorating health, as well as the strains of solitary confinement at the Alexandria, Va., detention center.
Ultimately, Jackson split her decision, making some of her sentence — 30 months — concurrent with the Virginia punishment, but ordering that the rest be served consecutively. Manafort's nine months already spent in jail since his bond was revoked last June for witness tampering will count toward his time served, meaning Manafort is on track to be released from federal custody around the end of 2025.
By my calculations, if Manafort were to get all available good time credit, he might be eligible for release in 2024. And, thanks to the FIRST STEP Act, Manafort might also eventually be able to earn some additional time off for participating in prison programming (though the particular of "earned" time credits will likely not be fully in place until next year).
Some of many prior related posts:
- Appreciating ugly sentencing realities facing Paul Manafort and Rick Gates after federal indictment
- Paul Manafort has bail revoked ... and has not (yet) gotten rescued from jail by Prez Trump's clemency pen
- Paul Manafort found guilty of 8 of 18 counts ... and now faces real possibility of spending many years in federal prison
- Paul Manafort seemingly poised to get "senior discount" at upcoming sentencing
- Paul Manafort facing potentially longer sentence after judge concludes he failed to comply with plea deal
- Paul Manafort given (only?) 47 months in prison at first federal sentencing
- Rounding up some of many thoughts about Paul Manafort's (first) federal sentence
March 13, 2019 in Booker in district courts, Celebrity sentencings, Offender Characteristics, Offense Characteristics | Permalink | Comments (9)
New California Gov to order moratorium on executions in his state
As reported in this local piece, headlined "Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop death penalty in California, giving reprieves to 737 death row inmates," there is big death penalty news from the Golden State. Here are the details:
Gov. Gavin Newsom is putting a moratorium on the death penalty in California, sparing the lives of more than 700 death-row inmates. Newsom plans to sign an executive order Wednesday morning granting reprieves to all 737 Californians awaiting executions – a quarter of the country's death row inmates.
His action comes three years after California voters rejected an initiative to end the death penalty, instead passing a measure to speed up executions.
Newsom says the death penalty system has discriminated against mentally ill defendants and people of color. It has not made the state safer and has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, according to prepared remarks Newsom plans to deliver Wednesday morning when he signs the order.
"Our death penalty system has been – by any measure — a failure," Newsom plans to say. "The intentional killing of another person is wrong. And as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual."
California has not executed anyone in more than a decade because of legal challenges to the state's execution protocol. But executions for more than 20 inmates who have exhausted their appeals could have resumed if those challenges were cleared up, and Newsom has said he worried that it could happen soon.
Newsom has been a longtime opponent of the death penalty. While campaigning for a measure to repeal the death penalty in 2016, he told The Modesto Bee editorial board he would "be accountable to the will of the voters," if he were elected governor. "I would not get my personal opinions in the way of the public's right to make a determination of where they want to take us" on the death penalty, he said.
The moratorium will be in place for the duration of Newsom's time in office, the governor's office said. After that, a future governor could decide to resume executions.
California is one of 31 states with capital punishment. In recent years, other states have abolished the death penalty and several other governors have placed moratoriums on executions. The California Constitution gives the governor power to grant reprieves to inmates, providing he reports his reasoning to the Legislature.
But Newsom's action will anger death penalty proponents. "The voters of the State of California support the death penalty. That is powerfully demonstrated by their approval of Proposition 66 in 2016 to ensure the death penalty is implemented, and their rejection of measures to end the death penalty in 2016 and 2006, said Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, in a statement late Tuesday. "Governor Newsom, who supported the failed initiative to end the death penalty in 2006, is usurping the express will of California voters and substituting his personal preferences via this hasty and ill-considered moratorium on the death penalty."
Preventing executions through a blanket action is an abuse of the governor's power, death-penalty supporter Kent Scheidegger told The Bee in an interview earlier this month. The governor's clemency powers are designed to correct individual cases of injustice, said Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. "It's not supposed to be a weapon for blocking the enforcement of the law that the people have passed just because the governor disagrees with it," Scheidegger said.
In addition to the moratorium, Newsom's order will also withdraw California's legal injection protocol and close the execution chamber at San Quentin, where all death row inmates are imprisoned. Those on death row will remain in prison under the order.
I suspect this moratorium order may be challenged in court, but I doubt there is functionally much that can be done to undo this moratorium given that there has been de facto moratorium in place for more than a decade already.
UPDATE: Over at California Correctional Crisis, Hadar Aviram has this lengthy posting about the moratorium and its implications under the title "Moratorium!!! What Does It Mean?"
ANOTHER UPDATE: This press release from Governor Newsom's office provide a link to this official executive order which orders, inter alia, the "executive moratorium ... in the forms of a reprieve for all people sentenced to death in California." And I have now seen that Prez Trump had this tweet about this development this morning: "Defying voters, the Governor of California will halt all death penalty executions of 737 stone cold killers. Friends and families of the always forgotten VICTIMS are not thrilled, and neither am I!"
March 13, 2019 in Clemency and Pardons, Death Penalty Reforms, Sentences Reconsidered, Who Sentences | Permalink | Comments (8)
March 12, 2019
"Prosecutors and Frequent Utilizers: How Can Prosecutors Better Address the Needs of People Who Frequently Interact with the Criminal Justice and Other Social Systems?"
The title of this post is the title of this new publication from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Institute for Innovation in Prosecution emerging from its series on Reimagining the Role of the Prosecutor in the Community. This paper is authored by John Choi, Bob Gualtieri, Jeremy Travis, and Allison Goldberg, and here is part of the start of this document:
Criminal justice involvement is often the culmination of unmet needs, according to an increasing body of research, testimony, and other evidence. For many individuals who are arrested and charged, a combination of challenges — including mental illness, substance use, poverty, and trauma — can lead to frequent stays in the local jail, emergency room, and homeless shelter. But very few of these stays lead to adequate care or address long-term needs. Rather, social systems — criminal justice, health, and housing, for example — traditionally exist in silos and operate on an "event-by-event basis," with little coordination between them about how to address the overlapping populations they serve. For those who cycle between these systems, often referred to as "frequent utilizers," these stays offer few off-ramps from the criminal justice system or long-term resources.
For jurisdictions, this results in an ineffective use of public funds and an inadequate response to the needs of frequent utilizers and their communities. While practitioners, policymakers, academics, and people directly impacted have described this cycle for years, innovations in data and technology offer new avenues to better understand and address the needs of those who frequently interact with the criminal justice and other social systems. Through collaboration between criminal justice stakeholders, service providers, community organizations, and researchers, jurisdictions across the country are harnessing the power of data to develop new strategies to combat this cycle, invest in long-term solutions, and better meet the needs of frequent utilizers and their communities....
This paper grapples with how prosecutors can develop and implement responses that better meet the needs of frequent utilizers in ways that are also consistent with the prosecutor's broader responsibilities.
March 12, 2019 in Offender Characteristics, Procedure and Proof at Sentencing, Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing, Who Sentences | Permalink | Comments (0)
Making progressive (but not political) case that the FIRST STEP Act "does much harm"
Marie Gottschalk has this new Jacobin commentary assailing the FIRST STEP Act under the headlined "Did You Really Think Trump Was Going to Help End the Carceral State?". The piece reiterates at length a variety of the criticisms from the left waged against the risk assessment tools in FIRST STEP while its fate was being debated in Congress. I recommend the whole piece, and here is how it starts and some excerpts:
With much fanfare, President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act into law in December. New Jersey senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker hailed the legislation as a milestone that marked a "meaningful break from decades of failed policies that led to mass incarceration." Other supporters were more measured, characterizing it as a modest first step to keep the momentum going for criminal justice reform.
But the greatest sins of the First Step Act are not its modesty. The legislation nicks the edges of the carceral state while bolstering disturbing trends in criminal justice reform. CNN commentator Van Jones has claimed that the First Step Act is a "rare clean bill" that "does no harm." Jones is wrong — it does much harm.
Grounding penal policy in the best evidence-based research is a mantra in criminal justice reform. Yet key provisions of the First Step Act are at odds with leading research on how to enhance public safety while minimizing social and economic costs and maintaining a fair criminal justice system that treats everyone — including people who are imprisoned — with dignity....
Van Jones's claim that the First Step Act paves the way for federal prisons to "rehabilitate and heal — not just punish" rings hollow. The legislation authorizes miniscule funding for its ambitious aims. It designates $75 million annually for the next five years to develop and implement the new risk and needs assessment system for each person in the federal prison system. In doing so, the measure diverts "limited resources for programming by requiring a complex risk assessment process that would primarily benefit people deemed at a low or minimal risk of recidivating," according to the Sentencing Project, which ultimately gave its qualified support to the First Step Act....
The fundamental problem is not that people in prison do not want to participate in programs but rather the critical shortage of those programs, let alone quality programs. Currently, 16,000 people are on the wait list for the BOP's literacy program.
The federal prison system is currently in crisis due to overcrowding and staff cutbacks that the First Step Act will not alleviate. Many federal facilities are operating way above capacity. Nurses, counselors, and even cooks have been drafted to serve as temporary correctional officers because of severe staffing shortages. Last year a bipartisan group of legislators charged the Bureau of Prisons and the Trump administration with ignoring calls in Congress not to eliminate thousands of jobs in the federal prison system.
It is impossible to run effective prison programs when people are locked down in their cells due to staffing shortages, teachers and counselors are filling in for correctional officers, and assaults and violence are on the rise, as has been the case in the federal prisons.
Concerns about the under-funding and under-staffing of federal prisons are well founded, and the headline of this new Marshall Project report does not provide a basis for any new optimism: "First Step Act Comes Up Short in Trump's 2020 Budget: Supporters worry because law seeks $75 million a year for five years, but president's plan lists $14 million." But I always find these kinds of criticisms of modest improvements in criminal justice systems quite politically tone deaf given how politicians on both sides of the aisle have shown so little interest in pursuing any reforms at all until fairly recently.
This author rightly notes that "many federal facilities are operating way above capacity," but she leaves out that the federal prison population is lower now than any year while Prez Obama was in office. If Prez Obama was unwilling or unable to pursue all the big changes that progressives would like to see, there need to be even more of a political sea change to make big reforms viable. Notably, some of the 2020 candidates are talking big about criminal justice reform on the campaign trail (most notable Cory Booker), and it is seems to me that they have the space to advocate more boldly only because the FIRST STEP Act is law and not just a bill awaiting a vote.
Ultimately, this piece serves as yet another reminder that how the FIRST STEP Act is implemented and what follows legislatively and politically will ultimately define whether this first step really is more harmful than helpful. I am still in the optimistic camp on this front, but this commentary provides the best argument for pessimism.
March 12, 2019 in FIRST STEP Act and its implementation, Procedure and Proof at Sentencing, Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing, Reentry and community supervision | Permalink | Comments (0)
March 11, 2019
New indictment exposes underbelly of federal RDAP program ... and provides still more reason to be thankful for passage of FIRST STEP Act
This interesting new AP piece, headlined "Show up drunk: Indictments spotlight prison rehab scams," reports on indictments surrounding efforts to defraud the only long-standing federal prison program thathas allowed prisoners to earn reductions in their rehabilitative efforts. Here are the details:
It's a tip that has been passed onto convicts for years: On your way to federal prison, say you have a substance abuse problem, and you could qualify for a treatment program that knocks up to a year off your sentence.
Federal prosecutors have long suspected abuses in the program, which has enrolled a deep list of high-profile convicts. Recently, a grand jury in Connecticut indicted three people accused of coaching ineligible convicts on how to get into the Residential Drug Abuse Program, or RDAP, by telling them to show up to prison intoxicated and fake withdrawal symptoms. The charges are among the first filed against prison consultants involving the program.
The case has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of prison consulting, in which some ex-convicts and former prison employees charge thousands of dollars for their inside knowledge to help people prepare for life behind bars. Some consultants say there has been wrongdoing in the industry for decades, including encouraging clients to scam their way into the rehab program.
The small industry now is "totally the Wild West," said Jack Donson, president of New York-based My Federal Prison Consultant and a retired federal Bureau of Prisons employee. "I hope it brings light to things," he said, referring to the Connecticut case. "I hope it gives people ... pause to not cross that line to illegality and unethical conduct."
Completing the nine-month, 500-hour treatment program for nonviolent offenders is one of only a few ways inmates can get their sentences reduced. About 15,600 inmates — nearly 10 percent of the current federal prison population — participated in the program last year, and thousands more are on waiting lists. To get in, convicts must present evidence they had substance abuse or addiction problems during the year prior to their arrest. Upon completion, their sentences can be reduced and they can spend the last six months of their sentences in a halfway house.
Christopher Mattei, a former federal prosecutor in Connecticut, said the U.S. attorney's office increasingly saw white-collar convicts make use of the program. "It undermines the public's confidence that all people when they go before a court for sentencing will be treated fairly. People who know how to game the system know how to get the benefits, whereas people who are struggling with addiction don't know all the angles to play," said Mattei, former chief of the financial fraud and public corruption unit in the Connecticut U.S. attorney's office....
The criminal indictments in Connecticut are believed to be among the first criminal charges filed against prison consultants in connection with the treatment program. Arrested were Michigan residents Tony Pham, 49, and Samuel Copenhaver, 47, both of Grand Rapids; and Constance Moerland, 33, of Hudsonville. The three were managing partners in RDAP Law Consultants, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the three told clients over the past six years to falsely inform Bureau of Prisons officials that they had drug and alcohol problems, taught them how to fake withdrawal symptoms and how to fraudulently obtain medication to treat withdrawal symptoms, so they could show prescriptions to qualify for the program. The partners also told their clients to begin drinking alcohol daily before going to prison and to show up drunk, the indictments said....
Last year in New York City, a lawyer and three other people were charged with defrauding the government and making false statements. They allegedly submitted bogus information to prison officials, claiming that a convicted drug dealer had a history of addiction, in an effort to get the client into the drug treatment program so he could be released early. The case remains pending.
Other consultants coach people on how to lie to get into the program, according to Donson, who said some also claim they can get convicts sent to prisons that have the RDAP program when only federal prison officials have that authority. He said he sees potential for fraud also as consultants rush to offer help related to a new law that allows federal prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before late 2010 the opportunity to petition for a lighter penalty.
Donson and other consultants say more monitoring of the industry and prosecutions would help deter misconduct. "It's an unregulated industry, so something like this hopefully brings some attention to it," said Dan Wise, an ex-con who completed the RDAP program and now runs a prison consultant business based in Spokane, Washington.
I think it important for the feds to appropriately police the RDAP program to ensure defendants who are truly struggling with addiction are able to access a program with finite resources. But this article fails to highlight that defendants' efforts to sneak into the RDAP program was a symptom of a broader disease, namely that federal prisoners have historically had precious few means to seek to earn reductions in their sentences. Thankfully, the FIRST STEP Act is a significant step toward treating this disease, as it provides an elaborate set of mechanisms for allow some prisoners to earn reductions through other rehabilitative efforts. But, critically, the FIRST STEP Act has a number of problematic exclusions and restrictions on which prisoners can earn reductions AND there is reason to worry that poor implementation of the FIRST STEP could lead to privileged prisoners again being better able to access programming and reduction that should be made properly available to as many prisoners as possible.
Without know more about the indictments and underlying facts referenced in this AP article, I am disinclined to comment directly on whether federal prosecution of prison consultants may be the most efficient and effective way to police the administration of prison programming. But I am eager to encourage everyone involved in counseling defendant and prisoners to be honest and straight-forward in their dealing or else prisoners and their families are likely to be the ultimate victims.
March 11, 2019 in FIRST STEP Act and its implementation, Offense Characteristics, Prisons and prisoners, Reentry and community supervision | Permalink | Comments (2)
In praise of Collateral Consequences Resource Center for new major study of non-conviction records
Regular readers know I have regularly urged folks to regularly check out the work and commentary over at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, and today brings a new post at CCRC that seems important to highlight because it talks about filing a very important gap in our understanding of modern law, policy and practice. Here is the start of the post:
CCRC is pleased to announce that we are undertaking a major study of the public availability and use of non-conviction records – including arrests that are never charged, charges that are dismissed, deferred dispositions, and acquittals. Law enforcement agencies and courts frequently make these records available to the public through background checks, and allow their widespread dissemination on the internet. This can lead to significant discrimination against people who have not been judged guilty of any wrong-doing, and result unfairly in barriers to employment, housing, education, and many other opportunities. While almost every U.S. jurisdiction makes some provision for limiting public access to non-conviction records through mechanisms like sealing or expungement, such relief provisions vary widely in availability and effect, and are often hard to take advantage of without a lawyer. What's more, arrest records may remain accessible on the internet long after official files have been made confidential or even destroyed. While CCRC's Restoration of Rights Project now includes state-by-state information on how non-conviction records may be sealed or expunged, our new project will examine applicable laws more closely.
The first phase of this project, which is nearing completion, will produce a detailed inventory of the laws in each U.S. jurisdiction for limiting public access to arrests and/or judicial proceedings that do not result in conviction. Among other things, this inventory will examine eligibility criteria, procedures (including any filing fees), and scope of relief. We will also note where state law or court rulings permit sealing of dismissed charges where one or more charges in a case do result in conviction. In a second phase of this project, we will consult with policy experts to conduct a nationwide analysis, examining specific issues across all jurisdictions, identifying patterns and gaps in existing policies. The goal of a third phase will be to produce model legislation.
March 11, 2019 in Collateral consequences, Data on sentencing | Permalink | Comments (0)
Making (belated) case for a Prez to "choose nominees who will help dismantle mass incarceration"
James Forman has this notable new New York Times op-ed about Supreme Court nominations and the field of potential challengers to Prez Trump under the full headline "The Democratic Candidates Should Tell Us Now Who They'll Put on the Supreme Court. And they should choose nominees who will help dismantle mass incarceration." I recommend the piece in full, and here are excerpts:
In a country that locks up more of its citizens than any other, we should demand that candidates for president have a plan for how they will confront mass incarceration and repair the harms it has caused. While most of the action in our criminal system takes place at the state and local level — almost 90 percent of prisoners are incarcerated in state, county, or local prisons or jails — the federal government still has an important role to play.
As Rachel Barkow, a law professor at N.Y.U., argues in her important new book, "Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration," judicial appointments are one of the most powerful ways that a president can influence criminal justice policy. Federal judges make rules that govern nearly every aspect of our system, from police at the beginning of the criminal process to sentencing and prison at the end.
Over the past 50 years, those rules have facilitated mass incarceration. Judges have held that the Fourth Amendment doesn't prohibit police from racially profiling drivers during traffic stops, that the Sixth Amendment permits trials with underfunded defense lawyers who present little evidence or argument, and that the Eighth Amendment is no bar to outrageous sentences like life without parole for drug possession.
How did our legal landscape become this anti-defendant? In part because so many federal judges are former prosecutors. Ms. Barkow reports that 43 percent of federal judges have been prosecutors, while 10 percent have been public defenders.
A judge's career background doesn't always predict her rulings — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a former prosecutor, often stands up for the accused. But she is the exception. Federal judicial opinions typically read as if their authors have given little thought to how an excessively punitive criminal justice system can ruin lives, decimate families and lay waste to entire communities.
To upend this dynamic, Democratic presidential candidates must commit themselves to appointing federal judges who will work to challenge mass incarceration. This will mean going beyond anything President Barack Obama attempted. When Mr. Obama wrote a 55-page law review article on what a president could do to push criminal justice reform, he made no mention of judicial appointments. Worse, his appointments displayed almost the same pro-prosecution bias as his predecessors': About 40 percent of his judicial nominees had worked as prosecutors, while some 15 percent had been public defenders.
Democratic candidates should promise to eliminate this bias by reshaping the federal bench so that it has as many former public defenders as it does former prosecutors. The Supreme Court is a good place to start. Remember when Donald Trump courted the conservative right by announcing the names of possible nominees several months before the 2016 election? Any Democratic candidate who wants to win the votes of a Democratic electorate increasingly focused on criminal justice reform should make a similar announcement — and populate the list with lawyers who have seen the criminal system from the standpoint of the accused.
There is no shortage of quality names. High on my list would be Bryan Stevenson, a career death penalty opponent, consummate Supreme Court litigator and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama. Or Michelle Alexander, former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun, civil rights lawyer and author of the canonical "The New Jim Crow." (Ms. Alexander is also an opinion columnist for The New York Times.) Or Sherrilyn Ifill, a voting rights expert and head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the civil rights firm founded by Thurgood Marshall in 1940.
These aren't the names that typically appear on Democratic short lists. They aren't sitting judges, and unlike many who now serve on the federal bench, they've taken unpopular stands, sometimes at great risk. As a result, my list might sound unconventional, even outlandish, to those accustomed to the traditional approach to judicial selection. But it shouldn't. With impeccable credentials, unassailable legal acumen and a fierce determination to take down mass incarceration, these are the future nominees whose names should start rolling off the tongues of Democratic candidates who want to be taken seriously as criminal justice reformers.
I am very pleased to see this issue getting attention as the 2020 race starts to heat up. But, as long-time readers know, I think this issue should have been a focal point for reformers for more than a decade and should lead to distinctive analysis of the work of recent Presidents. I am pleased to see some very justified criticisms of Prez Obama on this front (though the failure to mention the Garland appointment blunder is telling), but how about also criticizing Hillary Clinton for not creating a nominee list to compete with the one put out by candidate Trump? How about noting, though this does not play to political bases, that Justice Neil Gorsuch had a smidgen of defense lawyering experience in law school and he has already show a willingness to vote for more defendants' rights than his conservative colleagues?
I could go on and on, but I mostly want to praise Prof Forman for elevating these issues, issues that I hope all the Prez candidates feel bound to engage.
March 11, 2019 in Campaign 2016 and sentencing issues, Campaign 2020 and sentencing issues, Criminal justice in the Obama Administration, Criminal justice in the Trump Administration, Who Sentences | Permalink | Comments (2)
March 10, 2019
Rounding up some of many thoughts about Paul Manafort's (first) federal sentence
Lots of folks have had lots and lots to say about Paul Manafort's first federal sentence of 47 months in prison (basics here). I am disinclined to make any definitive assessment of whether I think justice has been served in this matter until we see the results of his first federal sentencing later this week. In the meantime, however, I am happy to share a sampling of just some of the copious commentary from notable folks about Manafort's fate to date:
From (former federal prosecutor) Frank Bowman, "The (first) Manafort sentencing"
From (former federal judge) Nancy Gertner, "US sentencing needs reform, but Manafort's 47 months was a strange one"
From (former federal prosecutor) Elie Honig, "A shockingly lenient sentence for Paul Manafort"
From (current defense attorney) David Oscar Markus, "Four years for Paul Manafort is the right sentence"
From (current defense attorney) Rachel Marshall, "I'm a public defender. My clients get none of the sympathy Manafort did."
From (former federal prosecutor) Renato Mariotti, "Racial Bias Doesn't Fully Explain Manafort's Sentence. It's Unchecked Judges."
From (former federal prosecutor) Ken White, "6 Reasons Paul Manafort Got Off So Lightly"
March 10, 2019 in Celebrity sentencings, Offender Characteristics, Offense Characteristics, White-collar sentencing | Permalink | Comments (4)
Kansas doctor gets federal LWOP sentence for abusive opioid prescribing
In the wake of Paul Manafort's sentencing, lots of folks are complaining about privileged white defendants getting a different kind of justice than others. But this federal sentencing story from Kansas, headlined "Wichita doctor who sold pain-med prescriptions for cash sentenced to life in prison," reveals that, in some cases, even some privileged white defendant will be subject to the most severe sentences possible. Here are the details:
A Wichita doctor who illegally distributed addictive prescription drugs has been sentenced to life in federal prison.
Judge J. Thomas Marten said it is "quite clear" that Dr. Steven R. Henson, 57, wrote multiple prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose and "abused his position of trust as a licensed physician."
"I have sentenced people to life before," Marten said in court Friday. "They were people who took guns and shot people."
The investigation began after a pharmacist raised concerns that a doctor was over-prescribing controlled pain medications. One man died from an overdose after getting a prescription from the doctor.
"I want this case to send a message to physicians and the health care community," U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a statement. "Unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances is a federal crime that could end a medical career and send an offender to prison. We are dealing with an epidemic. Nationwide, more than 70,000 Americans died in 2017 from drug overdoses. That is more than all the American casualties during the war in Vietnam."
Nicholas "Nick" McGovern died in July 2015 after overdosing on a mix of alprazolam and methadone prescribed to him by Henson. It was the count relating to McGovern's death on which Henson was sentenced to life in prison....
Defense attorney Michael Thompson contended during sentencing that Henson wasn't writing the prescriptions "to make easy money on the side" because he didn't need to. He said that the doctor "tried to do what he thought was best for his patients."
"I only had one goal in life as a physician," Henson said, "and that was to take excellent care of patients and to increase their functionality," adding that he tried to serve the under-served in the community and worldwide through mission trips.
But the judge cited Henson's own testimony during the trial that he raised his fee from $50 to $300 to help pay rent on his medical office.
Federal investigators discovered that Henson would give pain-med prescriptions to patients for $300 in cash at a time, with few questions asked. The investigation began in 2014 with a pharmacist's concern that a doctor was over-prescribing controlled medications. Prosecutors said Henson falsified patient records during the federal investigation in addition to obstructing investigators....
Henson was found guilty in October of two counts of conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs outside the course of medical practice; 13 counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone; unlawfully distributing oxycodone, methadone and alprazolam; unlawfully distributing methadone and alprazolam, the use of which resulted in the death of a victim; presenting false patient records to investigators; obstruction of justice; and six counts of money laundering....
Defense attorneys asked for a 20-year prison sentence, saying that Henson led a "model life" outside of this case. "Maybe he wasn't the best physician," his attorney said. "He made some very serious mistakes. He wrote these prescriptions not out of greed, malice or ill intent. He was trying to help his patients. That was his goal."
The judge said he had only met three or four people who he thought were "filled with evil and beyond redemption."
"In some respects, what I've seen from you is worse, in that you don't seem to understand," Marten said. "I really don't think that you get it. I think that in some respects you were numb to what you were doing over time. ... I just wonder if your practices have had any impact on you. It seems as if you're still thinking, 'Why am I here, what did I do wrong?'"
Just based on this news report, I think this case could probably sustain a whole book highlighting how this sentencing intersects with our modern opioid and overdose crisis and the broader debates over mass incarceration and equity and the trial penalty in sentencing.
March 10, 2019 in Drug Offense Sentencing, Offender Characteristics, Offense Characteristics, Procedure and Proof at Sentencing, Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing, Race, Class, and Gender | Permalink | Comments (1)


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