Alan Rosenthal

September 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

This article reviews the challenge of DVSJA sentencing and then takes a look at how this challenge was met in a recent DVSJA sentencing in the case of 'People v. M.M.'

By Alan Rosenthal and Daniel Arshack

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April 15, 2020 | New York Law Journal

In May, 2019, the New York Legislature enacted the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) which authorizes alternative sentences for defendants who were victims of domestic abuse. This article takes a look at the judicial knowledge and analysis that must now be brought to bear in the course of this new sentencing determination.

By Alan Rosenthal

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