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Bill would let people sentenced before 2023 seek resentencing when juvenile adjudications inflated offender scores
Summary
Representative Chris Stearns told the House Community Safety Committee on Jan. 28 that House Bill 1274 would let people sentenced for offenses committed before July 23, 2023, petition for resentencing if juvenile adjudications improperly increased their adult offender score.
Representative Chris Stearns, prime sponsor of House Bill 1274, told the committee the 2023 change that largely removed juvenile adjudications from adult offender-score calculations left many people behind because the change was not retroactive. Stearns said about 856 people currently incarcerated could be affected and emphasized disproportionate impacts on Native American people.
Staff described the proposed substitute, which would: establish resentencing procedures for people sentenced before July 23, 2023, whose offender score included juvenile dispositions that are not scorable under current law; set timing and confinement criteria…
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