On the heels of the Sentencing Reform Act of 2015's introduction in early October aimed at reforming drug offenses mandatory minimums, last week both the United States House of Representatives and Senate introduced legislation to further address the Federal criminal code's "overcriminalization".
Federal Legislation Introduced to Address "Overcriminalization" By Codifying Criminal Intent Requirement
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Grand Juries Indicted over 11,000 individuals in 2014
According to Mark Gillispie's October 21, 2015 News Herald article entitled "An explanation of a grand jury panel", last year Cuyahoga County grand juries found that the prosecution had met its probable cause burden to indict over 11,000 individuals and that the prosecution had not met is burden to charge only 326 times.
