Proposed bill would allow judges to consider fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in sentencing

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March 29, 2012

JUNEAU, Alaska: A new bill could give Alaskan judges more flexibility when it comes to sentencing in special cases. Judges are not currently allowed to consider fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in criminal sentencing. The new bill SB151 would add FASD to a list of mental conditions that judges use to hand down sentences.[1]

Senate Majority Leader Kevin Meyer said this would not be a "get out of jail free card" and would only reduce a sentence providing that FASD played a direct roll in the crime. For a judge to consider FASD in a case the defense would be required to provide proof of documentation of prenatal alcohol use as well as a convincing clinical diagnosis.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Associated Press, "Bill would let judges consider fetal alcohol spectrum disorders," 03/04/12
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