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Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification
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Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification
Four years ago, Connecticut garnered national recognition for its innovative, rehabilitation-focused TRUE Unit at the Cheshire Correctional Institution. Now, one of the unit’s mentors has been granted a second chance, succeeding in winning an unprecedented sentence modification.
On January 15, 2021, Judge David Gold of the Hartford Superior Court announced his decision resentencing Clyde Meikle, a Yale Law School Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic (CMIC) client, to 28 years from the 50 to which he was originally sentenced for fatally shooting his cousin.
On Friday, December 18, 2020, Meikle and his legal team, led by Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara and five CMIC Yale Law School students, appeared at a hearing in Hartford Superior Court to modify Meikle’s sentence to reflect his record of re
Clyde Meikle prays silently beside his attorney, Yale Law School’s Miriam Gohara, as he awaits Judge David Gold’s ruling on his request for a shorter sentence.
A Hartford Superior Court judge granted a sentence modification on Friday to Clyde Meikle, a man serving a 50-year prison sentence for killing his cousin in 1994.
“The Clyde Meikle of 1994 was a different person than the Clyde Meikle that stands before the court today,” Judge David Gold said before granting Meikle’s sentence modification, cutting his sentence from 50 years to 28.
Meikle killed his cousin Clifford Walker 26 years ago by shooting him in the stomach during a dispute over a parking space at his family’s house on Enfield Street in Hartford’s North End. Meikle, who long suffered from substance abuse and unresolved trauma at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1998. He has served 26 years so far, during which he has earned a GED and the credits for a college degree and b