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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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2015.
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Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) review section 18-1.3-401(1)(b)(IV), C.R.S., and the efficacy of implementing enhanced sentencing for first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and first-degree murder of an emergency medical service provider.
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2010.
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During the 2009 Legislative Session, C.R.S. 16-11.3-103 (2.5)(d)(l) was modified by Senate Bill 286 to require that the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice prioritize the study of sentencing to recommend whether to modify any sentences or sentence laws. The attachments to this memo are the final requirements identified in SB 286.
18) Indefinite sentencing and the Colorado correctional system: report to the Colorado General Assembly
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Research publication volume no. 139
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[1968]
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2008.
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Two primary concerns prompted this paper, the mandatory sentence provision and the definition that is not restricted to escape from secure facilities. First, consecutive sentences for escape convictions are mandated in statute. For nearly all other criminal sentences, consecutive sentences are at the discretion of the judge. It is the mandatory nature of the sentencing provision that concerns members of the Task Force. This broad brush approach to...