Bill In Iowa Legislature Would Increase Penalty For Accidents Caused By High Speeds
Wed 1-20-2021
(Des Moines, IA) A bill under consideration in the Iowa House creates a new charge for driving at an excessive speed and causing someone else s death.
Under the bill, a driver could be sentenced to a decade in prison if their vehicle was going 25 miles-an-hour or more above the speed limit and it directly or indirectly caused the death of someone else.Â
A lobbyist for the Iowa State Sheriffs and Deputies Association says under current law, it s difficult to appropriately charge a speeding driver involved in a fatal crash if they weren t intoxicated or intentionally targeting someone.
Trump Commutes 835-Year White-Collar Sentence for Sholam Weiss
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January 20, 2021
(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump included in his last-minute wave of clemency grants a commutation of former New York businessman Sholam Weiss’s 835-year sentence, believed to be the longest ever imposed on a white-collar criminal.
Weiss, 66, was sentenced in 2000 in federal court in Orlando, Florida, following his conviction on charges stemming from his role in a series of complex financial frauds that resulted in the collapse of the National Heritage Life Insurance Co. In commuting Weiss’s prison term, which was previously reduced from the original 845 years, Trump noted that Weiss suffers from “chronic health conditions.”
Marshall Project this week has a timely three-part series in which leading conservatives working on and advocating for criminal justice reform are setting out the conservative case for reforms. The first commentary was authored by Pat Nolan and carried the subheadline Focus on intent, tailor the punishment to the crime, prepare prisoners for life after incarceration.
The second in the series here is authored by Vikrant Reddy and carries the subheadline End overcriminalization, reward success, pay attention to the heroin crisis. Here are excerpts:
Criminal justice reform advocates are pessimistic about the prospects for federal sentencing reform under the new presidential administration. Federal sentencing, however, is only one component of America’s vast criminal justice system. There are several other areas where the administration and reformers could find common cause. Here are just three reforms widely supported by advocates which are also consistent with a “Trumpian
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