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PLB Submits Letter to USSC Advocating Child Pornography Sentencing Reform

The United States Sentencing Commission is responsible for the promulgation and periodic revisions to the United States Sentencing Guidelines used in the federal courts. The Commission has recently submitted a report to Congress, in which it identified thirteen points warranting comment. One of these areas deals with Guidelines provisions used in child pornography sentencing, in

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When Judges Attack: The Case of Todd Broxmeyer

Most legal observers would agree that when two respected jurists attack each other’s rationale in published opinions, there’s probably a good reason for it.  Sometimes it’s a case in which the stakes are high, as in the death penalty appeal where Judge Stephen Reinhardt for the Ninth Circuit called the opinion of colleague Alex Kosinski

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