by Fred Sisto | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, New Jersey
The following section was also added to the Attorney General Criminal Justice Reform Directive: 4.6.3.b ODARA Scores and Gender of Offender and Victim. The original study that resulted in the ODARA and many of the subsequent validations evaluated the predictive...
by Fred Sisto | Nov 24, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, New Jersey
The following section was added to the Attorney General Criminal Justice Reform Directive: 4.6.3.a 0ffenses for which the ODARA Shall be Completed. The ODARA’s requirements of physical contact or a threat of death with a weapon will exclude from risk assessment...
by Fred Sisto | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, New Jersey
The old section 4.6.2 from the Attorney General Criminal Justice Reform Directive was replaced with the following section, consistent with the Attorney General’s new emphasis on detaining all alleged “domestic violence” offenders pretrial: 4.6.2 Critical Definitions...
by Fred Sisto | Nov 18, 2017 | Blog, Criminal Law, New Jersey
The following section was also removed from the Attorney General Criminal Justice Reform Directive, consistent with the Attorney General’s new emphasis on detaining all alleged “domestic violence” offenders pretrial: 4.6.2 Special Factors in Domestic Violence Cases....
by Fred Sisto | Nov 12, 2017 | Blog, New Jersey
The assessment can be scored with up to five missing items, and the raw score is subject to proration for unknown or missing items. A defendant is placed in one of seven categories of risk utilizing his/her final score. Each risk category correlates to a...
