Blog Mar 19, 2009
Marijuana bill is wrong vehicle for legalization
At first glance, AB 390 by Assembly Member Tom Ammiano (D‑San Francisco) to legalize the cultivation, sale, and use of marijuana under a regulation and taxation system similar to that applied to alcoholic beverages would seem to epitomize the sensible, humane policies for which he is known. By nearly every standard, marijuana is less troublesome than alcohol, better use can be made of law enforcement resources than to arrest and prosecute 70,000-plus Californians for marijuana every year, and…
Mar 9, 2009
Daniel Macallair and Catherine McCracken educate California state Judges on juvenile dispositional options
Daniel Macallair and Catherine McCracken educate California state Judges on juvenile dispositional options Executive Director Daniel Macallair, MPA and Sentencing Service Program Director Catherine McCracken, M.S., are leading experts in the development of presentence investigation reports for youthful offenders. Recently Mr. Macallair and Ms. McCracken educated California state Judges on juvenile dispositional options at the exclusive 2009 Juvenile Law Institute.
Executive Director Daniel Macallair, MPA is the leading national expert on juvenile institutional mitigation. He draws on his twenty-years experience in the development and analysis of youth and adult correctional policy. Recently, he presented on “Juvenile Incarceration as Mitigation” at the annual CACJ/CPDA capital case defense seminar. Their website is www.cacj.org .
CJCJ’s Sentencing Service Program releases the 2008⁄09 Juvenile Placement Manual The Sentencing Service Program first released its Juvenile Placement Manual in 2002 to assist individuals in the…
Executive Director Daniel Macallair coauthored expert testimony at sentencing- “Proof of Facts” Daniel Macallair, Executive Director coauthored recent updated version of G. Thomas Gitchoff’s “Proof of Facts: Expert Testimony at Sentencing” for the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia of US law. Please contact