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... © The Ohio State University Memorandum Reporting Revisions to Illegal Reentry Fast-Track Program in Central District of California Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp.349 350, ISSN 1053-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363. This material is in the public domain and may be reprinted...

...J. Bradley O'Connell © The Ohio State University Amazing Stories: Blakely v. Washington and California Determinate Sentences June 27, 2004 J. BRADLEY O C O N N E L L Staff Attorney, First District Appellate Project in San Francisco Last week, in a case which had not been on the radar...

...Michael M. O’Hear When Voters Choose the Sentence: The Drug Policy Initiatives in Arizona, California, Ohio, and Michigan Direct democracy has played an increasingly important role in state sentencing policy over the past decade. In the 1990Õs, voters in several states adopted three-strikes...

...Caleb Mason; David Bjerk © The Ohio State University Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparity on the Federal Bench: An Examination of Drug Smuggling Cases in the Southern District of California CALEB MASON Miller Barondess, LLP DAVID BJERK Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna...

...Aaron J. Rappaport © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Realigning California Corrections AARON J. RAPPAPORT Professor of Law, U.C. Hastings College of Law Editor Emeritus, Federal Sentencing Reporter Three years ago, when the Federal Sentencing Reporter last examined California s...

...J. Richard Couzens © The Ohio State University Realignment and Evidence-Based Practice: A New Era in Sentencing California Felonies I. The Catalyst for Change Prior to 2011, California s sentencing system was typical of those in other jurisdictions: misdemeanors were punished by con nement...

...Jessica Spencer; Joan Petersilia © The Ohio State University Voices From the Field: California Victims Rights in a Post-Realignment World JESSICA SPENCER J.D. candidate, Stanford Law School JOAN PETERSILIA Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School I. Introduction Victims...

...Michael Vitiello © The Ohio State University Still Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sentencing Reform in California The reform of California s corrections and sentencing system has made substantial progress, but a permanent solution to overcrowding and its consequences still remains...

...Wendy S. Still © The Ohio State University San Francisco Realignment: Raising the Bar for Criminal Justice in California WENDY S. STILL* Chief Adult Probation Of cer, San Francisco Adult Probation Department The Public Safety Realignment Act of 2011 (Assembly Bill 109) has challenged...

...Barry Krisberg © The Ohio State University Reforming the California Division of Juvenile Justice: What s the End Game? Most of the attention in the past year has focused on the affects of decarceration in the adult prison system through the process of Realignment. Far less attention has been...

...Carole D'Elia © The Ohio State University The Politics of Public Safety Reform in California Carole D Elia Deputy Executive Director, Little Hoover Commission California once led the United States in its criminal justice policies. Decades ago, other states and nations looked to the Golden...

...J. Richard Couzens © The Ohio State University Reforming California Sentencing Laws: A Judicial Perspective J. Richard Couzens Judge of the Placer County Superior Court (Ret.) As a sentencing judge wends his way through the labyrinthine procedures of [the California Determinate Sentencing Law...

...Kara Dansky © The Ohio State University A Blueprint for a California Sentencing Commission Kara Dansky Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center Since California s Determinate Sentencing Law was enacted in 1976, state lawmakers have introduced state sentencing commission enabling...

...Carrie L. Hempel © The Ohio State University Lawrence and Shaputis and Their Impact on Parole Decisions in California Carrie L. Hempel Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law Irvine I. Introduction On August 21, 2008, in the case of In re Lawrence,1...

...Thomas Hoffman © The Ohio State University The Debate Around Parole Reform in California In August 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger s staff asked me to become the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation s (CDCR) Director of the Division of Adult Parole Operations (DAPO). I retired...

...Roger K. Warren © The Ohio State University Probation Reform in California: Senate Bill 678 Roger K. Warren Scholar in Residence, Judicial Council of California On October 11, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved historic legislation to strengthen felony probation services...

...Collateral Consequences Resource Center © The Ohio State University California Enacts Sweeping Fair Employment Law On October 14, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1008, the California Fair Chance Act . . . The Act extends a new ban-the-box requirement to private as well...

...Sarah Brady Siff Abstract The early history of drug sentences in California provides a quintessential example of structural racism in law. The demands of white voters to escalate penalties for drug crimes followed a pattern of collective myth making and value signaling that insisted opiates...

... in two judicial districts in the Ninth Circuit: Arizona and California Northern. Although in the same circuit, the two districts approach hand down dissimilar punishments. The article examines the differences across race and gender and type of offense. Across the board, sentences not only are more severe...

...Kathryne M. Young; Debbie A. Mukamal; Thomas Favre-Bulle © The Ohio State University Predicting Parole Grants: An Analysis of Suitability Hearings for California s Lifer Inmates KATHRYNE M. YOUNG* Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University Assistant...