Category: Court
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When It Comes To Court, Nothing Is Certain Whether you’re in prison or facing federal prison, there’s a number of reasons why anyone who does legal work can’t provide any kind of guarantee. Oftentimes people forget, especially inmates or defendants, that judges are just people, too. If something bad happens that day, if they wake…
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How Good Will A Lawyer Perform That Isn’t Being Paid At All Now that DOGE has completely imploded what does this mean for government oversight? Federal Prison Tips has received documentation confirming that CJA Appointed attorneys for federal defendants facing federal prison that can’t use the Federal Defender’s Office will not be paid until October…
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Juries, Not Judges, Decide if Administrative Remedies Have Been Exhausted The PLRA, or the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, was designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits from prisoners in state and federal prison from clogging up the courts. The PLRA is what requires inmates to file grievances, and attempt to resolve them within the BOP…
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Putting Together Your Appeal For Reduction of Sentence If you’re facing federal prison time and approaching the sentencing phase, filing a motion for sentence reduction, or working on a clemency packet, what should you include in letters to the judge? Or, alternatively, the President of the United States, or Pardon Czar Alice Marie Johnson, or…
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Rod C was on his second federal prison bid and the government was strongly opposed to early termination, he was still granted based on the reply we helped him with.
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“Ineffective Assistance” Is a Favorite of Jailhouse Lawyers But Is It Really Effective? If you’re in Federal Prison reading this (we won’t report you like others) but you’re probably considering “ineffective assistance of counsel” or a 2255, but is that really effective? According to the latest Justice Department data and a search of real time…
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Too Many Federal Inmates Have Had This Happen To Them Finding yourself the defendant in a Federal Criminal Court Case may be one of the hardest things you’ll ever endure. Most likely you’ve heard the statistics, the government’s winning percentage is in the very high 90’s. Some say 98% others say 96%. Either one is…
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Acquitted Conduct Amendment Takes Effect November 1st, Many Don’t Understand What It is. After President Joe Biden took office he sat the first complete United States Sentencing Commission in over 7 years. During the preceeding 7 years, although the guideline manuals were continuously published, no significant changes had occured until 2022. In 2022 after the…
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Thousands of Inmates Have Been Held Well Beyond Their Conditional Release Date. On September 4, 2024, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rolled out a new tool that they thought would really help both the case management divisions and most FSA eligible federal inmates. That’s not exactly how this went down. The Conditional Release date started…
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The U.S. Attorney and the Assistant U.S. Attorneys are not your friends. No matter how nice they seem, when they’re meeting with you or negotiating with your lawyer, they are not on your side. They are on the opposing side, the side of the United States Government. There are a lot of things that you…
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If you’ve been on supervised release for a year or longer, haven’t gotten in any trouble with your probation officer, and have had no dirty UA’s (dirty drops), now is the time to consider filing for early termination of supervised release. Judges across the country are granting early terminations more liberally now than ever before…
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This is a Federal Prison Tips Excusive. Ashley Siclovan was an adult male in custody on the west coast. He started at Stafford in Arizona and finished at Victorville Medium, after being granted compassionate release by Federal District Court Judge Adrienne Nelson in the District of Oregon. Siclovan’s issues for compassionate release were simple. He…
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The PSR Is The Bible For Court and The BOP One of the most important things someone facing Federal Prison will do is the “pre sentence investigation” interview. That interview will occur after plea or trial, and will allow for 72 days for the United States Probation Officer who does the interview, to compile the…
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When I was first indicted I was facing “100 years”. No bullshit. I was originally charged with 5 class “c” counts of wire fraud and securities fraud. Both of those felonies carry a statutory maximum of 20 years in Federal Prison. Because of this, when the news started picking up my story, nationwide, they all…
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Cash Money Millionaire’s, BG, who’s real name is Chris Dorsey, left Federal Prison a few years early this spring due to the 821 motion. Shortly after he got out, the United States Attorney’s office sought to revoke his supervised release because he was performing with other felons, among them Lil Boosie. Number 8 of the…
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Alphonso Woodley Gets All 810 Days Of FSA Credit The Woodley decision out of the Federal District of Kansas may be the decision that tens of thousands of federal inmates need to finally get First Step Act relief. The First Step Act was passed in 2018. It was the first significant prison reform package in…
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Young Thug’s Attorney Brian Steel is found in contempt and sentenced to jail time, and then he’s not America is watching the Young Thug trial but unlike the OJ trial, this trial is playing out on the web, TV and all over social media. At the focal point of these shenanigans in the Young Thug…
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If you’re facing Federal prison, one of the most important things you can do before you get to Federal prison is take care of all of your other legal issues. If your loved one is in the county jail awaiting sentencing you want to make sure all of their other legal issues have been handled…
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While a majority of those facing Federal charges opt to go with the Federal Defender, their are still many people that choose to hire a “paid attorney”. In the Federal system most of the defendants decide to plea and in many cases a Federal Defender can help mitigate the sentence and negotiate the plea agreement,…
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Federal Defendant’s have four opportunities to speak for themselves during the court process. The first opportunity is in the Pre-Sentence Investigation interview. This interview is with a United States Probation Officer, who is going to ask about everything in your life, going all the way back to your childhood. Here you can bring up everything…