The Russell Report: Notes from the district’s courthouses
We begin with some good news: The Biden Administration has nominated Victoria Calvert to the Northern District of Georgia bench.
Oh where have you gone, compassionate release?
Our district’s collective compassionate-release project, like a speeding car with a blown flat tire, has rolled to a wobbly, harrowing
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The Eleventh Circuit Board
Okay, we get it. Any Georgia aggravated assault with a deadly weapon conviction (at least one based on reasonable-apprehension simple
The Eleventh Circuit Board
We begin with good news on both the Armed Career Criminal Act and the compassionate release statute, and then dive
The Eleventh Circuit Board
Three years ago, Judge Amy Totenberg imposed a sentence of probation by writing (and reciting in open court) a poem.
The Eleventh Circuit Board
We start with hopeful news about the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Supreme Court continues to prescribe us antidotes to
Van Buren v. U.S.: Yes, go ahead and check the baseball scores at work
[You’ll also find this piece on Don Samuel’s Contemporary Legal Problems blog, where he and others write wise and witty
The Eleventh Circuit Board
The Eleventh Circuit has again landed on the wrong side of a circuit split. In the First Step Act, Congress
Not-Guilty Verdict in the Russell Building
Three weeks ago, a trial team of the Federal Defender Program won an acquittal in the office’s first COVID-era jury
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