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• Pennsylvania’s new sentencing guidelines went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024.
• They mark the eighth iteration since the state first introduced such guidelines in 1982 and are perhaps the most comprehensive revision to date.
• Since Philadelphia has by far the largest share of incarcerated people in the state, the new sentencing guidelines affect many Philadelphia residents.

How do judges determine a person’s sentence?

• This means that judges are required to consider what the state guidelines suggest a criminal sentence should be, but they are not required to comply with the guidelines.
• That’s different from other states such as Minnesota and Oregon that have mandatory sentencing guidelines.
• In Pennsylvania, judges primarily consider what crime the person is charged with along with their prior record or criminal history.

What’s new in the 2024 sentencing guidelines?

• Probably the most significant change is re-weighting the two categories in the matrix — offense severity and criminal history.
• These categories are officially known as the Offense Gravity Score and the Prior Record Score.
• Lapsing policies, for example, have been expanded to reduce the impact of criminal history on sentencing for less serious offenders.

What’s the goal of the new guidelines?

• The guidelines themselves were created by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing with the the goal of promoting fair and uniform decisions on the severity of people’s punishment.
• These commission members provide direction and oversight and are unique from commission staff, who collect, analyze and monitor the sentencing data for the state.

What’s been the reaction so far?

• The new guidelines mirror the federal sentencing guidelines in that there are many offense gravity categories.
• One critique I’ve heard is that the Offense Gravity Score now has too many categories and adjustments, and that this might complicate things such as plea negotiations.
• Having more Offense Gravity Score categories could lead to more complicated and slower plea negotiations.

Will the guidelines reduce racial disparities in Pa.’s criminal justice system?

• For example, a December 2023 analysis by the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank, looked at racial disparities within the criminal justice system in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh and is Pennsylvania’s second-most populated county after Philadelphia.
• It found that significant racial disparities exist at each of the key stages of people’s encounter with the criminal justice system, from having charges filed against them to having their parole revoked.
• Courts to some degree inherit disparities from police and prosecutor decision making, though the new guidelines may help to reduce them at later stages, such as sentencing.
• Racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing are widespread in the U.S. and are almost never entirely explained by legally relevant factors such as type of crime committed or criminal history.

C. Clare Strange receives funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

• MONSEY, N.Y., Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The law firm of Wohl & Fruchter LLP has renewed its investigation of the proposed merger of Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) (“Callon”) with APA Corp. (“APA”) in an all-stock transaction that values Callon at approximately $38.31/share, which is below the price target of virtually all Wall Street analysts for Callon stock prior to announcement of the merger.
• The investigation of the proposed merger was renewed upon the filing of a proxy by Callon on February 16, 2024.
• The exchange values Callon at approximately $38.31 per share based on APA’s closing price on January 3, 2024.
• “We are investigating whether the Proxy fully discloses all material facts concerning the proposed merger.” explained Joshua Fruchter, a founding partner of Wohl & Fruchter.

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