Wellington laced with toxic death cap mushrooms. Now, our team has been following this from the very beginning of the trial all the way through to sentencing along with millions of people across the world fascinated by all the details.Now, she sat with her eyes closed for most of the time that the judge was talking, only opening them when he
defendant not with the prosecutor not with the defendant's lawyer but to be able to talk to the person I'm sentencing and to look into his or her eyes and mostly it's his eyes but there are some femaledefendants uh and make sure that I am able to communicate to them what this
those things just worry me about our country and about access to education and jobs and transportation and health sentencing for somebody was much greater than what you actually thought was fitting with your um judicial obligation
And then they try to get the family member who's most in trouble and attach relations between the most positive person and the person most in trouble American sentencing laws are much tougher than those of almost any other Western country or are just many more years or life imprisonment or these three strikes
affect black people so say black people suffer disproportionately from disparities in health care disparities in sentencing all kinds of disparities this education the solution for the new breakthrough politicians is to fix health care understanding that there will be kind of a reverse trickle-down effect and then if you fix health care then black people will
allowed a chance for parole, they think that that is too lenient. They argue that the sentencing judge made a mistake in saying that she would face tough conditions inside prison because of her notoriety and would be spending uh quite a considerable amount of time in the foreseeable future in solitary
Some work on voting rights. Some are working on sentencing reform. Some are working on conditions of confinement.
student deferment to 1A, would be drafted and sent to the front lines in Vietnam. They were sentencing the draft resisters to eight years in Leavenworth at that time.
related uh and um it is a very painful thing one of the things that's important to me in sentencing is to look very uh is to have the conversation with the defendant not with the prosecutor not with the defendant's lawyer but to be able to talk to the person I'm
have a chart that has the name the sentencing guidelines that are the what the United States sentencing commission recommends the sentence B and then if I have discretion which the vast majority of cases I can go dramatically below and above I have to articulate the reasons
And one of the tasks for me and being able to execute that expectation was to identify all the media that I can and the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth has generated and through our particular national network. And I may have came across as quite organized and efficient.
they established the economic independence to live longer without getting married, you know, on their own and they also give themselves a chance to get out of a bad relationship or marriage without sentencing themselves to a lifetime of poverty or forcing, uh, their family to take them in. It was actually quite common sixty, seventy, eighty years ago for a woman for whatever reason lost her husband, or separated her husband to move back in with her family.
And upon finding me guilty, we went to the sentencing hearing. At the sentencing hearing, the very witness, the one witness that pointed me out, said that he had lied. And that the police had coached him to say that I was the one.
There are lots of lights and teenagers everywhere. In the morning, I'm back in court, mildly hung over. Hans is there but doesn't get to say anything. The Judge scheduled the sentencing . Murder one is a mandatory 25 years to life. DuBois asks for some words with his client. The two men lean toward each other like lovers.
sentence him to five years and it was not a just and fair sentence which I'mrequired to uh under the sentencing laws I'm required to impose a just and fair sentence that is is sufficient this is the law but not greater than necessary
points are within that this to create more change yes yeah uhhuh well F thank you first of all on the sentencing issue um I'm keeping track uh in a Excel spreadsheet is that a Google product or somebody else okay no okay sorry not some some sort of thing I'm keeping
on the record or I'll be reversed but um I I am consistently sentencing at Le below and sometimes significantly below the sentencing guidelines but our sentences in the federal system are enormously long so even saying that I'm sentencing people generally below the
those things just worry me about our country and about access to education and jobs and transportation and health a firearm those uh the sentencing guidelines for being a felon in
to help them recognize these differences between kids and adults and to make sure that we're holding our young people accountable in age-appropriate ways and that we're never sentencing them to die in prison. And a really critical component of our work has been just in the last few years to demonstrate through a lot of different sort of techniques
That's one of the reasons you sometimes see people going free who may have done terrible things but because And he was up for sentencing in front of the judge.
for example, a recidivism score that would predict the likelihood that this person would reoffend. And that information would be used by judges to make sentencing decisions, parole officers to make parole decisions, and so on. And an analysis by ProPublica showed that that algorithm had a race bias.
somebody and um I don't even trust myself to remember carefully enough so I have a chart that has the name the sentencing guidelines that are the what the United States sentencing commission recommends the sentence B and then if I have discretion which the vast majority
below and sometimes significantly below the sentencing guidelines but our sentences in the federal system are enormously long so even saying that I'm sentencing people generally below the guidelines by articulating the reasons for that uh is to say I'm regularly imposing five and six and seven and 10
Hi. I'm Jody Kent Lavy. I'm the director of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. We are a nonprofit based in Washington, DC.
We are a nonprofit based in Washington, DC. And we are working to end the United States practice of sentencing our children to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Many people ask us what does it mean to sentence a kid to life in prison without the possibility of parole?
The sight of Hui Ka Yan, once Asia's richest man, in a courtroom flanked on both sides by police being sentenced to life in prison. Chinese television broadcast the sentencing as headline news. A court in the southern city of Shenzhen also issued a $1.3 billion fine to Hui's company, Evergrande, for multiple
I've given up on that, OK? So she was actually tasked to entertain the angel of death while he was sentencing people to death, right?
It's just, we have friends and family who have come from our agency who really support the girls, the families of the girls can come, There is a disproportionate highest level of Latino and black because of the sentencing rates.
work in social agencies that see firsthand the damages caused by criminal sentencing models that have gender or racial bias in them, for example.
He cried more when I told him she was cheating than he did at the sentencing .
And then you ending up in life in prison because of the sentencing guidelines and the guidelines chart.
of cases I can go dramatically below and above I have to articulate the reasons on the record or I'll be reversed but um I I am consistently sentencing at Le below and sometimes significantly below the sentencing guidelines but our sentences in the federal system are
uh paragraph in the Judgment that's entered that can be studied by anybody who who wants to um what the reasons are for going below uh what the sentencing commission recommends um and and I I keep track of it all uh in the one
those things just worry me about our country and about access to education and jobs and transportation and health have no choice but to sentence them in between the guilty plea and the sentencing I get something phenomenal
thing on the criminal justice, the sentencing thing.
As I don't know. So I got in touch with the executive director of that foundation and figured out a system of sentencing and release dates. And how could we have formal classical ballet class?
There are many others. There was a story by ProPublica a couple years back about algorithms used in courtrooms to guide judges and parole officers in making sentencing , bail, and parole decisions.
But when it finally came out to getting sentenced , the sentencing judge said, oh, you're
So for example, the COMPAS criminal justice profiling system was sentencing black defendants far more frequently
And the other day, I went in with-- Sessions just issued this sentencing memo.
time in prisons across the state to come up for review and prove that they're eligible or should be eligible for a second chance. The US Supreme Court has now stepped in several times to the limit the practice of sentencing kids to life without parole. And in doing so, they've relied a lot on adolescent development research, which shows that kids are fundamentally different than adults and that as a result
I could have-- it was the '80s, and they weren't sentencing adolescents to adult prison yet.
He found me guilty. And upon finding me guilty, we went to the sentencing hearing. At the sentencing hearing, the very witness, the one witness that pointed me out, said that he had lied.
you know, to the constitutional rights of people regarding the sentencing of sex offenders. In all
But there's been relatively few of, like for political crimes recently, sentencing to death and things like that,
And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful. going to be discussed a lot during this campaign, took away, in addition to all of these harsh sentencing laws,
So in many places in the US, the decision of which students go to which schools are made by an algorithm. As I mentioned earlier, in courtrooms, algorithms make recommendations on likelihood a person will commit a crime, which guides sentencing , bail, and parole decisions.
You can even see this, by the way, in federal judges and their sentencing that on that Monday after losing one hour of sleep,
the federal sentences are far more harsh, whereas in the autumn, if you get your sentencing , you actually get a more lenient sentence .
and effectively treated, to know who should get bail and who shouldn't, to have a fair sentencing , it's got to be individualized.