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Committee moves to advance proposal creating sentencing-reconsideration working group
Summary
The House Corrections and Institutions Committee voted 10-0-1 in a straw poll to advance language that would add a temporary Sentencing Reconsideration Working Group to the judiciary miscellaneous bill (H.109). The group would review Vermont’s sentencing-reconsideration laws, produce proposed legislation by Nov. 15 and expire Feb. 15, 2026.
The House Corrections and Institutions Committee on an April meeting took a 10-0-1 straw vote to advance language that would create a Sentencing Reconsideration Working Group and add it to the judiciary miscellaneous bill (H.109).
Ben Novogratzky of the Office of Legislative Council presented the draft language, saying the working group would be “aimed to review Vermont's laws concerning the criminal sentencing review process and to propose any changes to current law or practices.” He described membership, a report deadline and an expiration date for the panel.
The draft calls for the chief superior judge (or a designee) to chair the group and originally listed six members: the chief superior judge, the defender general (or designee), the commissioner of the Department of Corrections (or designee), the executive director of the Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs (or designee), the executive director of the Center…
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