Judicial Fact-Finding and Criminal Sentencing: Current Practice and Potential Change (open access)

Judicial Fact-Finding and Criminal Sentencing: Current Practice and Potential Change

This report provides an overview of criminal sentencing law by briefly describing the use of relevant conduct under the Guidelines and tracing the Supreme Court case law that has informed the practice, before addressing judicial commentary and recently proposed legislation regarding the use of acquitted or uncharged conduct at sentencing.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Foster, Michael A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supreme Court Nomination: CRS Products (open access)

Supreme Court Nomination: CRS Products

This document provides a list of all the Congressional Research Service reports describing the judicial decisions of Justice Kennedy and Judge Kavanaugh, as well as Supreme Court vacancies and nominations.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Nolan, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General's Office Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 (open access)

Texas Attorney General's Office Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021

Report submitted by the Office of Attorney General to the Texas 86th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, and supporting documentation.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 34, Pages 5443-5604, August 24, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 34, Pages 5443-5604, August 24, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Yemen: Civil War and Regional Intervention (open access)

Yemen: Civil War and Regional Intervention

This report provides information on the ongoing crisis in Yemen. Now in its fourth year, the war in Yemen shows no signs of abating. On June 12, 2018, the Saudi-led coalition, a multinational grouping of armed forces led primarily by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched Operation Golden Victory, with the aim of retaking the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah. The coalition also has continued to conduct air strikes inside Yemen. The war has killed thousands of Yemenis, including combatants as well as civilians, and has significantly damaged the country's infrastructure. According to the United Nations (U.N.) High Commissioner for Human Rights, from the start of the conflict in March 2015 through August 9, 2018, the United Nations documented "a total of 17,062 civilian casualties -- 6,592 dead and 10,470 injured." This figure may vastly underestimate the war's death toll.
Date: August 24, 2018
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library