Guidelines Compliance

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Guidelines Compliance

• FY2002 - Update

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Guidelines Worksheets Received(N8,690)
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Trial Type
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GENERAL COMPLIANCE
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General Compliance
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Recommended vs. Actual Disposition
Actual
Recommended
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Durational Compliance
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CIRCUIT COMPLIANCE
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Compliance by Circuit
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Compliance by Circuit
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Hanover,
etc. (71)
Chesterfield, Colonial Heights (72)
Buchanan, Dickenson, Tazewell, Russell (66)
Bristol, Washington, Smyth (71)
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Compliance by Circuit
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Compliance by Circuit
Charlottesville, Madison, Culpeper, Fluvanna,
etc. (85)
Radford, Bland, Pulaski, Carroll, etc. (90)
Portsmouth (85)
Chesapeake (89)
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OFFENSE COMPLIANCE
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Compliance By Offense

• Traffic Worksheet
• DWI 3rd 4th (87 Compliance)
• Habitual Offender (98 Compliance)
• Larceny Fraud Worksheets
• Historically, compliance gt 80

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GUIDELINES CHANGES FY02
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2ND Degree Murder Felony Homicide

• Section C Base Midpoint Increased from 133 to 205
  months
• for offenders with no prior violent felony
  convictions
• (27 non-jury cases)
• Compliance 63
• Mitigation 26
• Aggravation 11

PREVIOUS 53 Compliance 12 Mitigation 35
Aggravation
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Child Abuse/Neglect

• Section B Always Recommends Incarceration 1 day
  to 6 months
• when Victim Injury is scored
• (28 cases)
• Compliance 78
• Mitigation 11
• Aggravation 11

PREVIOUS 56 Compliance 4 Mitigation 40
Aggravation
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Preliminary
FY02 SEX OFFENSES
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Rape Offense Compliance
30.9
64.7
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FY02 Preliminary Rape Offense Compliance (n139)
Level 1 2 Level 2 16 Level 3
26 No Level 56
50 of All Rape OffendersRisk Level 1, 2, or
3 17 of judges in these cases sentenced within
the adjusted high
Adjusted High 12 cases
COMPLIANCE 65
MITIGATION

• Level 1, 2, or 3 Mitigation Departure Reasons
• Alt Sanction to Incarceration (29)
• Weak Evidence/Witness Refused to Testify (13)
• Emotional Problems (13)
• Victim Willing Participant (8)
• Victim Request (8)
• Jury Sentence (8)

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Sexual Assault Offense Compliance
20.1
65.6
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FY02 Preliminary Sexual Assault Compliance
(n273)
Level 1 0 Level 2 20 Level 3
26 No Level 54
37 of All Sexual Assault OffendersRisk Level 1,
2, or 3 14 of judges in these cases sentenced
within adjusted high
Adjusted High 14 cases
COMPLIANCE 66
MITIGATION

• Level 1, 2, or 3 Mitigation Departure Reasons
• No Reason Cited (15)
• Good Rehabilitation Potential (12)
• Victim Willing Participant (8)
• Plea Agreement (8)
• Guidelines Recommendation Too Harsh (8)
• Jury Sentence (8)

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Sexual Assault Offenses
FY00 Recommendation All sexual assault offenders
with Risk Level 1, 2, or 3 to be recommended for
a prison sentence 9 of Sexual Assault offenders
affected (25 cases)
Prior to Risk Assessment These offenders would
have been recommended for Probation/Incarceration
up to 6 months
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Rape Sex Assault Offenses in ComplianceDistanc
e from Midpoint
62 of all prison cases Within 20 months of
midpoint
3 of Level 1, 2, or 3 At Midpoint
53 of Level 1, 2, or 3 Below Midpoint
44 of Level 1, 2, or 3 Above Midpoint
Prison cases only
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DEPARTURE REASONS
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Mitigating Reasons
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Aggravating Reasons
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JURY SENTENCING
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Jury Cases
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Jury Compliance
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Jury Sentence Modifications
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Sex Offense Cases
31 cases for analysis All bench trials or guilty
pleas
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Sex Offender Risk Cases
18 cases (58 of sex offense cases) Level 1, 2,
or 3

• 72.2 Compliance Risk Cases Only
• 27.8 Mitigation
• Mitigating Reasons
• Plea Agreement
• Offender may lose his job
• Victim culpability
• Offender crime free since offense
• Offender will participate in treatment

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Sentencing In Range

• Jail Prison Cases Only
• Effective sentence
• Within recommended range

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Sentencing In Range

• Jail Prison Cases Only
• Effective sentence
• Within recommended range

63 below midpoint
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Sentencing In Range

• Jail Prison Cases Only
• Effective sentence
• Within recommended range

18 at midpoint
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Sentencing In Range

• Jail Prison Cases Only
• Effective sentence
• Within recommended range

19 above midpoint
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Sentencing In Range

• Jail Prison Cases Only
• Effective sentence
• Within recommended range

• 56
• 1 day to 19 mos
• Below midpoint

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March 25, 2002

• Minutes Judge Stewart

• General Assembly Rick Kern

• Impact Analysis Jim Creech

• Reanalysis Meredith Farrar-Owens

• Compliance Angela Kepus

• Revisions Jody Fridley

• Miscellaneous Rick Kern