Maybell Romero, Tulane University Law School, is publishing 'Ruined' in the Georgetown Law Journal. Here is the abstract. Judges play a critical role in one of the most important states of a criminal case’s adjudication—sentencing. While there have been substantial limitations placed on the discretion judges can exercise in devising punishments, there are little to none on what judges say at such hearings when articulating their rationales for the sentences they impose on… [read post]