12/18/06 - FAMM files amicus brief in Supreme Court Claiborne and Rita cases
The Court will consider this issue in two cases: Claiborne v. U.S., No. 06-5618, in which a below-guideline sentence was reversed by the appeals court as “unreasonable,” and Rita v. U.S., No. 06-5754, in which a within-guideline sentence was affirmed by the appeals court. If the Court decides that the guidelines are presumptively reasonable, the advisory guidelines will be advisory in name only, functioning much like the mandatory guidelines that Booker made unconstitutional. Read more
6/23/06 - FAMM joins with NACDL in the case of Toledo-Flores v. United States; Case to resolve definition of drug-trafficking crime
In a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that turns on the definition of a drug-trafficking crime, FAMM has joined the National Association of Federal Defenders (NAFD) in filing an amicus brief. Toledo-Flores v. United States, No. 05-7664. Read more
2/8/06 - FAMM files second amicus brief on federal good time issue
On February 8, 2006, FAMM, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and all 73 federal public and community defenders filed a friend of the court brief in Mujahid v. Daniels, No 05-8678. Like the petitioners in O’Donald v. Johns and Moreland v. BOP, Sabil Mujahid is asking the court to review a decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the way the federal Bureau of Prisons calculates good conduct credit. FAMM and fellow amici are supporting that request. Read more
1/19/06 - FAMM files friend of the Court brief in Supreme Court on good time issue
On January 18, 2006, FAMM filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to review O’ Donald v. Johns, No. 05-8504, because the case, challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ calculation of good time credit, “presents a question of great practical and legal significance.” Read more