SCOV Law

Eventually the coyote sabotages himself. By: Elizabeth Kruska There were four opinions this week, so we here at HQ decided to split them. Delaney did two, I’m doing two, and this all feels very equitable. I’ll keep it short because it’s summer and we all have better things to do than to be inside staring at screens. Like, we should be outside staring at screens.    First up is a case on sentencing. Briefly, the defendant pled guilty to two counts of sexual assault. He and the state negotiated a split sentence – some time in jail and some time on probation (where “some” is the rest of his life). The disagreement was about how much time he’d spend in jail. The parties agreed he could argue for not less than 3 years, and the state agreed it would argue for not more than 7 years. He also spent a bunch of time on a 24-hour curfew while the case was pending, and he wanted to be able to ask for that to count as time toward any jail time.   He pled to the charges, and the court s...