When a federal district court sentences a defendant under an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range, the defendant ordinarily is entitled to a resentencing, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Monday in ...

Sometimes, an appellate court uses oral argument to help it decide who ought to win. Other times, the justices know who will win, and oral argument becomes an opportunity for the judges to use counsel ...

In early 2005, Emily Owens was halfway through her Ph.D. thesis in economics at the University of Maryland. Her topic: the deterrence effect of long prison sentences. She had just received data from ...