Talk:Criminal sentencing in the United States

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Clarifications
When it says the legislature establishes a minimum term they must spend in prison, the example cited is 1/3rd, if the sentence given was the one given as an example does this mean at the least the defendant will serve 1/3rd of the 5 years in prison (i.e. 20 months) and spend the other two thirds on parole and then after those 5 years are over the sentence is over or could the defendant in theory be in prison for the full 50 years and then be released with no parole requirements.

Is it worth mentioning that the so-called 'truth in sentencing' is something of a misnomer, for example in Texas for a non 3g offence (3g offences being designated violent crimes e.g. murder, aggravated robbery) a defendant sentenced to 10 years in prison could in theory be released after one year?

Dudley25 (talk) 14:54, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Hey guys, I'm a criminal defense attorney who practices in Florida. Do you guys want me to add to this section? This whole page seems focused on death penalty stuff, which is a tiny fraction of a percent of criminal sentencing. There is an enormous amount of stuff that could be added to this page for each state in the united states, but I don't want to bother contributing if some asshole mod is just going to delete it for being citation needed or not being notable enough.

Hung Juries
This entry needs a section on the variations among states in how they handle juries who can't agree on sentences. In some states a new sentencing jury is empaneled, while in in some others the defendant must be retried. Nicmart (talk) 13:47, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

This article needs a lot of work
Some of the many issues with this article:

I posted this on the talk pages of WikiProject Law, WikiProject Crime and WikiProject United States. Joriki (talk) 06:12, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's been tagged with since June 2010.
 * It uses masculine pronouns to generally refer to people of unspecified gender. (See MOS:GNL.)
 * It contains awkward formulations like "Each state is very different from every other state in terms of sentencing".
 * Its lead section is too long and only contains two citations. (See MOS:LS.)
 * It contains obvious errors, e.g.:
 * "In the mid-1970s, most state and federal prisons moved from long term to short term sentencing" (sentencing isn't done by prisons),
 * "many jurisdictions, including the federal courts" (the federal courts aren't a jurisdiction).

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