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Are we headed toward virtual sentencing proceedings?

By Douglas A. Berman

Because I am always interested in the intersection of sentencing and technology, I found notable this local story headlined "Sentencing in steroid case is first by videoconference."  Here are excerpts:The sentencing Thursday in federal court was typical in every way except one.  While the judge and the attorneys were in a courtroom in Scranton, the defendant was 900 miles away in Minneapolis.  In what is believed to be a first for the William J. Nealon Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, a woman arrested as a result of an illegal steroid investigation was sentenced by videoconference. U.S. District Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie sentenced Cathy Jones, 43, to two years? probation for her guilty plea earlier this year to aiding and abetting possession of anabolic steroids...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 26, 2008 (boomark / email).