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House panel OKs criminal sentencing changes


House panel OKs criminal sentencing changes
State lawmakers took the first steps February 3 to reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies.
Without a single dissent, members of the House Committee on Criminal Justice Reform voted to restore some of the discretion taken away from judges more than four decades ago to determine what is an appropriate sentence.
HB2673 does not scrap all of the mandatory sentencing laws.
In order to divert from the code, a judge would need to find that a mandatory sentence would be an injustice to the defendant, that it is not necessary to protect the public, and that the person was not convicted of a serious or dangerous offense. And judges would have to explain their decision on the record. ....

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Away with. let me get to another subject here, victims rights. this is an area of the law that you ve shown particularly interest in over your time as a senator. i have with me letters of support for your nomination from various victims groups and advoca advocates. the victims of crime and leniency. victims and friends united op-ed by professors paul caselle and steve twist all in support of your nomination. i d ask these documentsen placed as part of the record. as attorney general, what steps will you take to ensure that victims right are protected? we cannot forget victims right. we have a victim witness legislation that creates within each united states attorney s office a victim witness coordinator, and the job of that person is to make sure that concerns of the victims are heard, if they have to come to court, they help them get there, ....

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