Panel on Virginia Sentencing at “The Future of Sentencing” Symposium

As part of a symposium sponsored by the student-run Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, participants discussed Virginia's sentencing laws. With John Monahan, John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia; Meredith Farrar-Owens, legislative director, Virginia Sentencing Commission; Linda Bryant, Virginia deputy attorney general and member of the Virginia Sentencing Commission and Steven Benjamin, special counsel to the Virginia Senate's Courts of Justice Committee and past president of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers