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His sentencing included a three-year enhancement, a standard based on his being armed with a firearm, which is greater than the one-year enhancement he would have received for assault with a deadly weapon.
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was a key proponent for the legislation. [2] If a felon has three or more prior convictions for offenses that are "violent felony" offenses or "serious drug offenses," [3] the Act provides a minimum sentence of fifteen years imprisonment, instead of the ten-year maximum prescribed under the Gun Control Act ...
Lockhart v. United States, 577 U.S. 347 (2016), is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the interpretation of a federal statute. 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(2) states that a defendant convicted of possessing child pornography is subject to a mandatory 10 year minimum prison sentence if they have "a prior conviction...under the laws of any State relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday vacated the 14-year sentence of disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti, who was convicted of swindling his clients, and ordered he be resentenced. Avenatti, who ...
Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two middle school girls in 2017, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday, almost eight years after the children's bodies were found near ...
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He killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. He was given 12 life sentences (one for each murder), and an additional 3,318 years in prison for numerous counts of attempted murder, one count of possessing an illegal explosive device, and one sentence enhancement of a crime of violence. [56] Ra Diggs: 2015 12 life sentences plus 105 years United States
Sentencing reform is the reform of sentencing. It is a component of the larger concept of criminal justice reform . Reasons for sentencing reform include the effort to change perceived injustices in the lengths of criminal sentences, reducing overcriminalization , improving recidivism and crime prevention .