Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 4—COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court officially Monday renewed its project aimed at creating a felony criminal sentencing ...

On November 1, 2025, the most recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual went into effect. Among other changes, the amendments streamline the sentencing process from three steps to two ...

Criminal case sentencing of a convicted criminal can be a lightning rod for public interest and opinion depending upon the case. The overriding concern for a judge in sentencing is “the good order and ...

Judges have various restrictions on what they can say publicly, and for that reason, you don’t often hear our voices in contemporary public-policy debates. But as momentum builds to address deep ...

The process of sentencing in all respects challenges the imagination of defense counsel to explain the client’s situation, actions, mental state, ignorance, or other states of being that mitigate the ...

Oct. 4—COLUMBUS — The Ohio Supreme Court officially Monday renewed its project aimed at creating a felony criminal sentencing process that will make it easier to compare sentencing in all of Ohio's ...