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Commission on Sentencing explains four Prior Offense Groups used to calculate prior record score
Summary
A Commission on Sentencing presentation summarized the Eighth Edition Sentencing Guidelines’ system of four prior offense groups (POGs) used to determine a defendant’s prior record score and listed examples and cross-references to offense listings.
A presenter for the Commission on Sentencing said the Eighth Edition Sentencing Guidelines group prior offenses into four Prior Offense Groups, or POGs, and that the most serious conduct in a defendant’s criminal history determines the prior record score.
The explanation matters because the prior record score is a component of the Eighth Edition’s sentence calculation and the POG system is intended to focus on a person’s most serious prior conduct rather than simply totaling all prior convictions.
Under the guidance described in the presentation, POG 4 is the most serious group and consists of crimes of violence as listed in the cited statutory reference. Examples given for POG 4 included murder in the first…
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