Judicial Fact-Finding and Criminal Sentencing: Current Practice and Potential Change

Foster, Michael A.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Sentencing guidelines;    Sentences (Criminal procedure);    Criminal justice;   

RP-ID  :  LSB10191
RP-ID  :  LSB10191_2018Aug24

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report provides an overview of criminal sentencing law by briefly describing the use of relevant conduct under the Guidelines and tracing the Supreme Court case law that has informed the practice, before addressing judicial commentary and recently proposed legislation regarding the use of acquitted or uncharged conduct at sentencing.