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The report has an immediate purpose: to help the court determine an appropriate sentence as well as aide in officer sentencing recommendations. The report serves to collect objective, relevant, and factual information on a specific defendant. [7] Since the advent of the sentencing guidelines, the importance of the presentence reports has increased.
They can also discuss the impact the crime has had on their ambitions or plans for the future, and how this also impacted their extended family. Some jurisdictions permit statements to express what they deem to be an appropriate punishment or sentence for the criminal. Others expressly forbid any proposal or suggestion on punishment or sentencing.
These home visits are usually only granted to prisoners who have a few weeks to a few months remaining of a long sentence. Furthermore, home visits are more likely to be granted if the prisoner is deemed to have a low risk of absconding (i.e. prisoners being held in open prisons have a better chance of being granted home visits than prisoners ...
Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan must decide how to proceed with the case given Trump’s election victory.
Relatives described convicted capital murderer Jerry Elders as a good guy who loved to have fun and spend time with family in testimony just before the defense closed its case in his trial’s ...
The cheerleader, 13, was murdered by Aiden Fucci on Mother’s Day 2021. She was stabbed 114 times. In a heartbreaking two days of sentencing, new details emerged in the case. Graeme Massie writes
Additional questions will then be asked regarding to the client's family – their parent's background, the client's relationship with them, if anyone in their family, including them, attended residential schools. [12] Questions related to their grandparents, siblings, extended family, and members of their community, that support the client. [12]
Obtaining a compassionate release for a prison inmate is a process that varies from country to country (and sometimes even within countries) but generally involves petitioning the warden or court to the effect that the subject is terminally ill and would benefit from obtaining aid outside of the prison system, or is otherwise eligible under the relevant law.