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Another election day outcome with a sentencing twist

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from Nebraska, headlined "Voters give short molester's judge the boot," provides this post-election update of a sentencing story from a few years ago: Cheyenne County District Court Judge Kristine Cecava of Sidney, Neb., who touched off a national debate by sentencing a 5-foot-1, 100-pound child molester to probation, has been voted off the bench. Cecava is the eighth judge to be removed by voters since Nebraska adopted its judicial selection plan in the early 1960s. She sparked controversy in 2006 when she sentenced Richard Thompson to 10 years of intensive supervised probation and commented that she feared for his safety in prison because of his size.... In Nebraska, the governor appoints judges, but voters periodically consider whether they should be retained in office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).