Katie Aguilera

How Sentence Enhancements Increase Plea Deals & Reduce Transparency in the U.S. Justice System

Most Americans today are aware of mandatory-minimum sentences in federal and state criminal sentencing guidelines and the often excessive punishments they place on offenders.  What is perhaps less well known is the existence of sentence enhancements in the US judicial system.  These are defined as “facts and circumstances that, if present in your case, allow the sentencing judge to increase or 'enhance' the sentence that normally applies to the crime.”

National Security Letters: Protecting Against Terrorism Or Protecting a Police State?

Last month, the US senate came up two votes short of the necessary number needed to pass an amendment to a criminal justice spending bill that would have expanded the type of information that can be obtained with the use of a warrantless surveillance technique known as a national security letter.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been pushing for this expansion for some time, and

Newsbud Live Google Hangouts

For the first Google Hangout yours truly is the host and our guests are Peter B Collins, Sibel Edmonds, Guillermo Jimenez, Bill Conroy, Prof. Robert McChesney, Christoph Germann, and Pepe Escobar.
 

For the second Newsbud Google Hangout Peter B Collins is joined by Sprio, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds, Prof. Filip Kovacevic, Paul Jamiol, and Katie Aguilera.