MCOLES - COMPAS at Sentencing - What Every Defense Attorney Needs to Know

Time: May 2, 2014 - 12pm to 2pm

Location: Lansing, Auburn Hills, Ann Arbor, and Grand Rapids

SADO’s Criminal Defense Resource Center (CDRC) and Thomas M. Cooley Law School (TMCLS), through a generous grant from the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES), will offer Use of COMPAS at Sentencing - What Every Defense Attorney Needs to Know from 12pm-2pm at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Auburn Hills, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, Michigan. COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) is a computerized assessment and case management system created by the Northpointe Institute for Public Management. This training event is for criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges and probation agents and will be presented by Jacqueline McCann. It is a primer with an emphasis on the meaning of the COMPAS scores, reliability of the scores, limitations on their use and the constitutional and state-law objections to raise at sentencing hearings. Michigan will begin using the risk assessment results at sentencing starting June 1, 2014. All presentence investigation reports must include risk assessment information from that date forward, pursuant to a new Michigan Department of Corrections’ Policy. The results are intended to inform sentencing discretion in terms of the rehabilitation and supervision needs of an offender in the community. For registration and additional information please contact Heather Waara at 313.256.9833 or email hwaara@sado.org.