The Mitigation Blog

If you’re facing federal charges, there’s a good chance the government is going to offer you a plea deal. But here’s the truth most defendants—and even some lawyers—don’t fully grasp:

The type of ple...

What if you could walk out of a sentencing hearing with a federal prison sentence—but never actually go to prison?

Thanks to recent guidance from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), that possibility...

When most federal defendants think of sentencing, they fixate on the guideline range calculated by the Pre-sentence Investigation Report (PSR). But what many don’t realize is that the most powerful we...