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Show Lindon judge attends judicial education coarse Judge Robert E. Winfield of the City Court in Lindon, has received a Certificate of Completion for two sessions at the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada-Reno. Nevada-Reno. The Alcohol & Drugs-Specialty session, Oct. 7-12, which attracted 41 judges from 15 slates including one military judge, one judge from Shosone-Paiute, Nevada and one judge from the Tribal Couer D'Alene, Idaho. Judges attending this session were trained in methods which would enable them to establish, monitor or improve their community-wide, court-based systems for handling those substance abuse cases which require various mixtures mix-tures of punitive and therapeutic sanctions. Also, cases were reviewed involving drinking drivers, public inebriates, marijuana users, narcotics abusers, and other substance abusers. Emphasis was given to the judicial role in these cases; the proper use of probation, the need to 'evaluate treatment programs; and correct ways to use legislated penalties. A community substance abuse treatment program was presented to stimulate the judge's ability to structure his actions to respond to his own community's need for such a program. The Sentencing Misdemeanants session, Oct. 14-19, which attracted 40 judges from 17 states, led off with a survey of the philosophy of sentencing, sen-tencing, from the 4000 year-old "eye for an eye" Code of Hammurabi to the modern concepts of restitution and work projects as sentencing alternatives may be a more constructive con-structive method of handling offenders, particularly the young. The jurists also weighed the merits of legislatively-enacted mandatory sentences against discretionary sentencing, in which the judge is left to decide the severity of the sentence based on factors in the individual case. The purpose of sentencing -whether it is to punish, deter, rehabilitate, or protect society -was another question considered by the participants. Some other areas examined by the judges were sentence bargaining, pre-sentence investigations in-vestigations and verbal and nonverbal non-verbal communications. At several points during the session, judges were handed hypothetical cases and asked to pass sentence on them. The ensuing group discussions allowed participants par-ticipants to share personal and regional views on sentencing philosophy and practical problems. The leading career judicial education and training institution in the nation, the National Judicial College is affiliated with the American Bar Association. |