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After Esteras v. United States: Is It Time to Amend 18 U.S.C. § 3583
With substantial early release now again part of federal corrections law and practice, indeterminacy is back, and the original offense and sentence are…
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
Esteras v. United States Answers Half the Question Presented
This week marks the end of the U.S.
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Jacob Schuman
A Better Approach to Updating, Restructuring, and Simplifying the Sentencing Guidelines Manual
The last in a series of essays on the 2024-25 U.S. Sentencing Commission guideline amendment year
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
Should Tiger Start Using A Cart?
Lessons from golf, its icons, and when the game collides with the law
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
FSR, Volume 37, Issue 2: Sentencing "Boat Defendants"
Now available from Duke University Press
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
After Kennedy: pondering Eighth Amendment functioning and litigating
With states enacting new capital child rape laws, whither the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling Kennedy v. Louisiana?
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DAB
Alcatraz: A Communications and Policy Case Study
How the President speaks to his supporters, taunts his opponents, and sometimes, paves the way to counter-program
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
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May 2025

The Failure of Drug Sentencing Policy Reform
The fourth in a series of essays on the 2024-25 U.S. Sentencing Commission guideline amendment year
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
A Constitutional Revival – Part 2
Rebuilding our government after the teardown
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
Lawyers, Linguists, Computer Scientists, and the Meaning of “Physically Restrained”
The third in a series of essays on the 2024-25 U.S. Sentencing Commission guideline amendment year
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
The 34th Annual Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich National Seminar on Federal Sentencing
July 30 - August 1, in Orlando, Florida
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
Is This Where the iPhone and AI Are Taking Us Next?
“I said, ‘Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera.’” America, Simon and Garfunkel (1968)
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Jonathan J. Wroblewski
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