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Interesting debate in Nevada over preparation of presentence reports

By Douglas A. Berman

Rarely does the preparation of presentence reports garner much attention from the media or the legal academy.  For that reason and others, I found really notable this new piece from Nevada headlined "Judges criticize plan on pre-sentence reports."  Here is how the piece begins: Judges across Nevada have banded together against a plan by Gov. Brian Sandoval, himself a former judge, to make the counties responsible for producing pre-sentence investigation reports on felons -- reports used to determine whether an offender is a threat to the community or safe enough to be released. Calling the idea "potentially dangerous," the judges say counties can't afford to take over the job of writing these reports, called PSIs, and they would likely disappear, leaving judges without the critical information they need to decide whether an offender should remain behind bars or be let out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).