BLOG BULLETS: There’s a software program named Cellebrite that law enforcement commonly uses to search cell phones and that helps it recover not only the things an ordinary user can see on the cell phone, but also hidden information like metadata and deleted text messages, call records, and contacts. A publication entitled “Preparing Testimony about […]

  Today’s post is just a short update on some past posts about the indivisibility of drug statutes.  You may recall two past posts about two Ninth Circuit opinions, albeit unpublished, holding the Arizona drug statutes are overbroad and indivisible — and therefore can’t qualify as prior drug offenses under the categorical and modified categorical […]

BLOG BULLETS: A proposed guideline amendment will make avoiding prison easier, first by adding a 1- or 2-level decrease for true first offenders with no criminal record at all, and, second, by combining Zone B and Zone C in the sentencing table, so anyone with a guideline range of 12-18 months or less can serve […]