Sentencing in the Criminal Justice System Interim Study Committee
Subjects:
Courts & Judicial
Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement
The committee will: consider and evaluate the use of mandatory minimum sentences in Colorado; consider and evaluation the continued viability of extraordinary risk crimes; examine the current habitual offender scheme; and consider the development of 'Second Look legislation that would address long sentences where prison placement is no longer in the interest of public safety and does not further the interest of justice.