Dolan v United States

Jun 15, 2010 08:58

In a tragic day for jurisprudence, the Supreme Court of the United States Monday approved "fill in the blank" sentencing, allowing a court to decide details of a sentence (in this case the amount awarded for restitution) an indeterminate time after the defendant is convicted. Dissenting, Chief Justice Roberts wrote:

[If] a trial court can “leave ( Read more... )

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the old addage unicornpearlz June 15 2010, 22:43:46 UTC
those who do not know history are destined to repeat it - and thus we lose about 300 years

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