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Fake Lawyer Howard Kieffer Wins Sentencing Error Appeal
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Howard Kieffer is kind of like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Catch Me If You Can, (without Leo’s movie star looks). Though he never attended law school or...
Court Decides Attorneys Fees, Notes First Amendment Ratification
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The problem with reading appellate opinions all day is that it makes us question what is wrong with the characters that occupy the courts, on both sides of the...
SCOTUS Signals Howards End in Qualified Immunity Appeal
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Steven Howards can't sue the Secret Service agents who arrested him after he expressed his disapproval for the war in Iraq to then-Vice President Dick...
Indecent Proposal to a Minor is a Crime of Violence
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Perhaps the Sentencing Guidelines should have included an enhancement for past "nefarious deeds" instead of past "crimes of violence" because no defendant...
Sentence Reduction Eligibility Not a Right to a Reduced Sentence
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that a defendant who qualifies for a sentence reduction under an ameliorative amendment to the Sentencing...
Will the Ninth Circuit Conference Kill All Future Conferences?
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
A number of you were probably disappointed when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals announced last year that it was cancelling its 2012 Bench & Bar...