Nov. 20, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — I love dogs. That is especially true for police dogs. A French police dog named “Diesel” was killed during a police raid that targeted the suspected mastermind of the deadly terror...

Nov. 11, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — In his absolutely superb law review article, a piece that every prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer should study hard, the brilliant judicial realist Alex Kozinski writes in regard to a...

Nov. 4, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by the Nebraska author Willa Cather. It is on all the lists, such as 100 best English-language novels of the 20th...

Oct. 28, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — “Ruling upholds extra prison time for felon who laughed during sentencing.” So wrote the estimable Howard Bashman yesterday, linking to the opinion and the breathless news coverage.  That got me...

Oct. 15, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Coming soon to a federal sentencing court near you, Risk Prediction and the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123)—Empirical Methods to Assess Risk to Reoffend. So? When...

Sept. 28, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — As Scott Greenfield notes, Senator Charles Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is probably against eliminating statutory minimums. That’s too bad. They ought to go. But if Senator Grassley...

Sept. 24, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — A trial balloon: Let’s transfer the entire federal public defense system (Federal Public Defenders and Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorneys) to an independent agency within the judiciary modeled after the...

Sept. 18, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Please read this remarkable article from the Omaha-World Herald: Assistant U.S Attorney Post: Prosecutor rumored to be headed here has baggage from California, (September 17, 2015). Above all else, I...

Sept. 9, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — I don’t know the answer to the titular question. I will try to briefly explain why this is a huge problem and why true sentencing reform needs to answer the...