Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification In the Press Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification Four years ago, Connecticut garnered national recognition for its innovative, rehabilitation-focused TRUE Unit at the Cheshire Correctional Institution. Now, one of the unit’s mentors has been granted a second chance, succeeding in winning an unprecedented sentence modification. On January 15, 2021, Judge David Gold of the Hartford Superior Court announced his decision resentencing Clyde Meikle, a Yale Law School Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic (CMIC) client, to 28 years from the 50 to which he was originally sentenced for fatally shooting his cousin. On Friday, December 18, 2020, Meikle and his legal team, led by Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara and five CMIC Yale Law School students, appeared at a hearing in Hartford Superior Court to modify Meikle’s sentence to reflect his record of rehabilitation. Meikle has been incarcerated for 26 years on a sentence for murder. The Hartford State’s Attorney’s Office joined Meikle’s petition for a 28-year sentence. Clinic members Felisha Miles ’21 and Kate Levien ’21 presented the case before Judge Gold.
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