Justices contemplate whether judges can use sentencing assessment
Wisconsin's Supreme Court is grappling with questions over whether an assessment system used to gauge a person's risk of recidivism should have been taken into account in the sentencing of a man found guilty of vehicle theft.
High court won’t let defendant reargue diminished capacity
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Michigan murder defendant’s due process rights were not violated when a change in state law following his 1994 conviction prevented him from reasserting a diminished-capacity defense when he later won a new trial.
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