The US Sentencing Guidelines state that home detention may be imposed as a condition of probation or supervised release, but only as an alternative...

Can a defense attorney negotiate a plea deal in Federal Court better than the one the US Atty offered?

Negotiating a more favorable plea agreement in this case may be possible, but that will depend on the way in which the defendant assisted the...

When your locked up on a state case and have a federal hold does the time run concurrent?

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b), will only credit an inmate for the time that he or she spends in official...

If a federal court, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 3142 or 3143, releases a defendant on bond pending trial, sentencing, execution of sentence, or...

Plead guilty to non conspiracy charge, but able to testify as being part of the conspiracy?

If the person's statement is relevant to the other defendants' conspiracy charge (that is, tends to make a fact more or less probable), the...

There is no jurisdictional barrier to filing a Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct a Sentence by a Person in Federal Custody pursuant to 28...

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I got sentenced to a year (feds) the judge said that they would send me a letter in the mail to let me know where to report and

The Federal Bureau of Prisons' Designation and Sentence Computation Center normally designates a defendant to a federal institution within four to...

In criminal cases, federal and state, particularly federal, do witnesses get paid for travel for trial, pre-trial events?

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(d) requires that a subpoena in a criminal case be served by a marshal, a deputy marshal, or a non-party to...

I was arrested on a federal warrant. Money was taken off my person, and placed in custody but not formally seized.

If the arresting agency did not serve you with a notice of seizure, the government did not file a civil complaint for forfeiture, and the money has...

How does the federal drug plea bargaining work in terms of quantities? Do you plead to a quantity of one drug if you sell two?

The quantity of a controlled substance to which a defendant admits distributing in the charge of conviction is relevant for the purpose of...