Groening, Stefan: Legal Encyclopedias

Discusses the imposition of mandatory minimum in drug cases.

Consecutive or Concurrent Mandatory Minimum Sentences; For offenses arising from a single episode, stacking of mandatory minimum terms is permissible where the violations of the mandatory minimum statutes cause injury to multiple victims or multiple injuries to one victim

Increase of sentence exceeding the minimum mandatory.

STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS; Sentencing proceedings

Exclusivity of disposition; mandatory minimum sentences

Sentence imposing fine or below minimum prescribed by law

The Sentence; Procedure.

Effect of mandatory minimum sentencing; eligibility for parole or gain-time.

What constitutes "illegal sentence";when a trial court imposes a sentence that is shorter than the required mandatory minimum sentence, the sentence is not within the limits prescribed by law and is properly viewed as an illegal sentence.

Consecutive or Concurrent Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Staking of Minimum Mandatory sentences.

Generally; decrease of sentence; Generally, a trial court has no authority to modify a sentence after a defendant has begun serving it to the text of the note The rule permitting a court to reduce or modify a legal sentence is not applicable to those cases in which the death sentence is imposed or those cases where the trial judge has imposed the minimum mandatory sentence or has no sentencing discretion.

THE CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT CODE; for those offenses having a mandatory minimum sentence, a scoresheet must be completed and the lowest permissible sentence under the Code calculated. If the lowest permissible sentence is less than the mandatory minimum sentence, the mandatory minimum sentence takes precedence. If the lowest permissible sentence exceeds the mandatory sentence, the requirements of the Criminal Punishment Code and any mandatory minimum penalties apply. Mandatory minimum sentences must be recorded on the scoresheet.

The number of federal prison inmates convicted under mandatory minimum laws decreased by 14 percent from 2010 to 2016.

Deals with the complexity of a safety valve, giving substantial assistance.

Discusses the validity of imposing mandatory minimums.

Discusses the complexities of the landmark case U.S. v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S. Ct. 738, 160 L. Ed. 2d 621 (2005), and what it means for sentencing guidelines.

Part two of the ALR above.

This annotation collects the cases in which the courts have considered various questions relating to appellate review for excessiveness to the text of the note of the sentence to the text of the note imposed in a narcotics to the text of the note case.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407, 78 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 547 (2012), addressed the constitutional validity of state statutory schemes which mandate sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of homicide offenses.

This annotation collects and analyzes those federal cases that discuss the application of the U.S. Supreme Court's Apprendi doctrine to the drug quantity element in federal narcotics prosecutions. The Apprendi doctrine holds that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to the jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

This annotation collects and analyzes the cases in which the courts have determined the validity to the text of the note of statutes to the text of the note which prohibit or restrict parole, probation, or suspension of sentence upon conviction of a defendant for a crime of violence.