
Set For Sentencing
Doug Passon
Over a million people a year will face sentencing. For a client and their loved ones, it will be the most important day of their lives. Unlike at trial, there is virtually no limi...
Episode list
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June 9, 2025
59 min
For My Enemies, the Law: The Return of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia
The Trump administration stated that Kilmar Abrego-Garcia would never return to US soil. But they just back-tracked and brought him back. Unfortunately he now faces federal prosec...
moreJune 2, 2025
48 min
Due Process Denied (PART II): Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and the "Great Replacement"
In understanding the current administration's draconian deportation policies, nothing makes sense except in the light of white supremacy. The underlying animating force of these po...
moreMay 26, 2025
48 min
Due Process Denied: Kilmar Abrego-Garcia (PART ONE)
America might have moved on from Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, but we have not. So, ask yourself: What happens when the U.S. government indefinitely sentences someone to a foreign prison w...
moreApril 28, 2025
43 min
George Santos Sentencing Post-Mortem
On Friday, April 25, George Santos learned his fate, at his fraud sentencing in federal court. He had two years since his indictment to walk the walk, demonstrate extreme remorse a...
moreApril 21, 2025
1 hr 15 min
Seismic Shift: Big Changes to the Sentencing Guidelines & the Country
Although we often complain about the sentencing guidelines, this week, I find myself thankful that we still live in a country that has courts and due process, in the federal crimin...
moreApril 7, 2025
1 hr 17 min
Reign of Terror: Tesla, Luigi Mangione, & Beyond
I'm back. I've been in hibernation for the last couple of months, basically paralyzed by what can only be described as a rapid descent into authoritarian hell. In his seminal work,...
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