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Fitting account of Dan Freed's sentencing contributions in NY Times

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's New York Times has a fine and fitting discussion of Dan Freed's many contributions to sentencing law and policy in this obituary.  Here are excerpts: Daniel J. Freed, a Yale Law School professor who was a leading intellectual influence and commentator on how Americans convicted of crimes should be sentenced, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 82 and lived in Guilford, Vt.... Professor Freed also had an important role in shaping the modern concept of bail. His writings, notably the 1964 book ?Bail in the United States? ? written with Patricia M. Wald, later a prominent federal appeals court judge ? influenced landmark legislation in 1966 that brought what scholars described as greater fairness to federal bail practices. But it was in sentencing, another area of the law that had drawn little attention in law schools, that Professor Freed had his most profound influence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).