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Notable discussion of the impact of civil commentment on sentencing sex offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

The Eighth Circuit handed down an interesting little ruling in a sex offender sentencing case today in US v. Jeffries, No. 09-3377 (8th Cir. Aug. 5, 2010) (available here). These excerpts from the opinion provides the highlights of the interesting argument made by the defendant and the Eighth Circuit's analysis: Jeffries argues that the district court violated the admonition in § 3553(a) to ?impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary? when it cited the need to protect the public as the basis for sentencing him at the top end of his guideline range. Jeffries acknowledges the specific instruction in § 3553(a)(2)(C) that district courts should consider the need for the sentence imposed to ?protect the public from further crimes of the defendant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).