The United States Sentencing Commission has released a new publication, Impact of Prior Minor Offenses on Eligibility for Safety Valve. This report provides an analysis of the role of convictions for prior minor offenses in the sentences of federal offenders. To view this publication, please click here

Fiscal year 2008 report on the cost of supervision by probation and pretrial services officers as compared to the cost of incarceration and pretrial detention.

U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, June 09, 2009
US v. Jones, No. 07-3070
Defendant's drug and firearm convictions are affirmed where the District Court properly denied Defendant's motion to suppress, because overriding considerations of public safety justified the arresting officer's failure to provide Miranda warnings before he asked questions devoted to locating an abandoned weapon.

U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, June 09, 2009
US v. Berkeley, No. 08-3017
Defendant's drug distribution conviction and sentence are affirmed, where: 1) the denial of Defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea was proper because defense counsel had no reason to know of the conflict of interest alleged by Defendant; and 2) Defendant did not automatically earn an acceptance of responsibility credit simply by claiming entrapment as his only defense