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Committee seeks middle ground on sentencing reconsideration study after repeated split recommendations
Summary
Committee members spent substantial time discussing a provision in S.109 that would examine the viability of a "second-book" or sentencing-reconsideration process, and asked staff to recast the provision into specific procedural questions to seek practical consensus.
Committee members spent substantial time discussing a provision in S.109 that would examine the viability of a "second-book" or sentencing-reconsideration process. Several members said prior study groups and the sentencing commission repeatedly failed to reach consensus, producing little forward movement on the issue, so the committee explored drafting narrower language…
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