Our criminal defense attorneys at Spodek Law Group can rely on 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) to petition the sentencing court to modify, reduce, or enlarge supervised-release conditions on your behalf. This statutory provision expressly…
What is supervised release? Under federal law, supervised release is a form of court-imposed supervision of an individual following their term of imprisonment - a supervision sentence that runs after prison rather than instead…
Supervised release is the final stage of a federal sentencing order. It begins immediately after a defendant completes federal imprisonment. If a court imposes supervision without imprisonment, it is generally probation rather than supervised…
What Is a Presentence Report (PSR) and Why Does It Matter?What Is a Federal Presentence Report?A federal presentence report (PSR) is a document that is prepared after a defendant has been found or pleaded…
The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines are no longer mandatory for federal judges’ sentencing decisions. In United States v. Booker (2005), the U.S. Supreme Court severed 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b)(1) and held that sentencing judges are…
In many jurisdictions, the term for release from prison on conditions of good behavior is parole. But modern federal post-prison conditional release is called supervised release, and it is imposed by the sentencing judge…
Learn how federal law defines and prosecutes sexual abuse of a ward under 18 U.S.C. § 2243(b), including sentencing guidelines, what constitutes custodial authority, how courts view consent, potential professional and licensing consequences, and…
The presentence report is the document the judge reads most carefully before announcing the sentence. It is also the document the defendant most often encounters for the first time too late to contest it…
Learn how voluntary manslaughter is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1112, the federal sentencing guidelines, and how the heat of passion defense can reduce sentences from decades to years. Understand the critical legal distinctions…