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House Institutions committee backs convening a working group on second-look sentencing; S.109 victim-notification language to be reviewed
Summary
Members of the House Institutions Committee discussed re-opening a 2020 Sentencing Commission proposal on sentence reconsideration (H.379), agreed to ask a working group to draft recommended language, and flagged related language in S.109 that would add victim-notification provisions via VINE.
Committee members on April 24 discussed reviving a 2020 Sentencing Commission proposal for sentence reconsideration, sometimes called a “second-look” or sentence-reconsideration process, and agreed to ask a working group to draft recommended statutory language for other committees to consider.
The committee chair said the proposal had been supported by the Sentencing Commission in 2020, though not unanimously, and had not moved through the Legislature. The chair also said the defender general, Matt Valerio, had suggested reconstituting the effort and that the defender general’s office believes a second-look process could reduce the number of post-conviction relief petitions their office receives and help manage their caseload.
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