First Circuit: Procedurally Unreasonable for District Court to Base Upward Variance on Defendant’s Prior Arrests by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated, on the basis of procedural reasonableness, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico’s sentence imposed upon …

Report: LAPD Engaged in Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Los Angeles Times used traffic stop data released by the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) under a new California law to calculate racial breakdowns of stops. The newspaper found that blacks and Latinos had …