Lauren Klosinski | March 11, 2020 | Sentencing
Members of the judiciary recently shared their thoughts on the challenge of sentencing in an article for The National Law Journal.The piece, “The Hardest Thing About Being a Judge? What Courts Say About Sentencing,” provides insight into what it’s like to pass...
Brandon Garrett | February 19, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Law Review. Risk assessments are a common feature of federal decisionmaking across a wide variety of areas of regulation. Perhaps the most widely used definition describes risk assessment as “the...
Aya Gruber | January 16, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by the New York Daily News on Jan. 12, 2020. View the original post here. As part of this year’s state of the state agenda, Gov. Cuomo announced sweeping changes to the criminal laws governing intoxicated sex. He has not...
Samantha Melamed | September 12, 2019 | Sentencing
This article was originally featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer on September 10.What’s the meaning of “life”?That’s a question Pennsylvania’s highest court will ponder Wednesday, as it follows other courts around the country in grappling with the question of how...
Anne Metz, John Monahan, Brandon Garrett and Luke Siebert | August 30, 2019 | Sentencing
ABSTRACTVirginia’s sentencing guidelines include alternative sanctions based on the use of a quantitative instrument called the Nonviolent Risk Assessment (NVRA) that identifies individuals convicted of drug and property crimes that are considered to be at lower...
