Stop Letting Judges Punish Defendants for Acquittals
That’s not how justice should work, and that is why Americans for Prosperity Foundation, Dream Corps JUSTICE, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the R Street Institute teamed up to file a cross-ideological brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Osby in Osby v. United States, a case asking the Court to consider whether basing a criminal defendant’s sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments. Others including the National Association of Federal Defenders, FAMM, the Cato Institute, and a group of former Federal District Court Judges and law professors have also weighed in to encourage the Court to intervene. And we believe the Court should.
