SIXTEEN MONTHS before its legislatively mandated demise, Georgia’s rotating panel of judges that can reduce excessively harsh prison sentences could be shut down sooner if it appeals-and loses-a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court.
Earlier this year, the General Assembly abolished, as of Jan. 1, 2009, the 33-year-old Sentence Review Panel. Lawmakers said that no sentence imposed after July 1 of this year could be reviewed by the panel, which has authority to reduce sentences of more than 12 years except for cases involving the state’s “Seven Deadly Sins”-murder, kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and armed robbery if committed with a firearm.
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