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Final Response to "Bias on the Bench"

Twelfth Circuit Court Response to Sarasota Herald Tribune "Bias on the Bench" Series

Table of Contents

Supplemental Documentation

Exhibit 1 - Plea and Charge Bargaining
Exhibit 2 - Plea Discussions and Agreements
Exhibit 3 - State v. Warner
Exhibit 4 - Excerpts from the D.O.C. Scoresheet Preparation Manual
Exhibit 5 - OBTS Data Summary for the 12th Judicial Circuit
Exhibit 6 - Letter from Court Administrator of the 20th Circuit to Herald Tribune
Exhibit 7 - E-mail from Herald Tribune to Court Administrator of the 20th Circuit
Exhibit 8 - Guest column of Ashley Cortez published in the Herald Tribune on December 22, 2016
Exhibit 9 - F.S. 958.04 Judicial Disposition of Youthful Offenders & F.S. 958.045 Youthful Offender Basic Training Program
Exhibit 10 - F.S. 948.101 Terms and Conditions of Community Control & F.S. 948.03 Terms and Conditions of Probation
Exhibit 11 - 19th Circuit Public Defender, Diamond Litty response to Bias on the Bench
Exhibit 12 - F.S. 921.0026 Mitigating Circumstances and section of sentencing guidelines scoresheet re: reasons for departure - mitigating circumstances
Exhibit 13 - E-mail from Professor Kenneth Nunn to Trial Court Administrator Walt Smith
Exhibit 14 - March 8, 2017 letter of New College with summary of findings
Exhibit 15 - Chief Judge Williams' Summary of findings of Felony Jury Trials from January 1, 1998 to Present
Addendum 15A - Analysis of 3rd degree felony cases
A year later and the paper acknowledges the data that their series were based on is flawed

Response from the Public