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Committee unanimously backs bill to let survivors present previously undisclosed evidence of abuse in sentencing and resentencing
Summary
Senators voted unanimously to advance a committee substitute for House Bill 582, which allows courts to consider evidence that a defendant was subjected to family or dating violence when evaluating justification or mitigation and permits some convicted survivors to seek sentence reduction if they lacked earlier access to that evidence.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a committee substitute for House Bill 582, a post-conviction and mitigation measure aimed at allowing survivors of family or dating violence to submit previously undisclosed evidence to courts.
Representative and bill proponents described the measure as a tool to let defendants who were subjected to abuse present relevant evidence that may not have been available at their initial plea or sentencing. "This is not a get out of jail free card," the bill's presenter told the committee, describing the remedy as a…
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