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Interesting sentencing data coming from Nevada study

By Douglas A. Berman

This article from the Carson Times reports on a sentencing study coming from Nevada that includes some notable and perhaps surprising findings:About 12.5 percent of felony defendants sentenced in Nevada in 2007 received punishments that fell outside the limits set by law, according to a university study presented Monday to a commission evaluating sentencing practices in the state. Of the cases studied that year, 1,364 defendants received a minimum or maximum sentence that went beyond what was allowed by statute, said Matt Leone, a researcher with the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.  "There were folks being sentenced on a one-to-five to a maximum that exceeded five years," Leone told members of the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice, an interim legislative panel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).