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Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue


Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
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Monday, January 25, 2021
Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
The United States leads the developed world in rates of gun violence, a true epidemic that affects everyone. The statistics can be alarming: annually, nearly 40,000 Americans die due to gun violence, an average of over 100 people per day. Another 73,000 people experience firearm injuries some life-altering in severity.
To examine the deleterious effects of this growing crisis, Yale Law School faculty and students convened collaborators from Yale University and across the country to publish a groundbreaking special issue of
) devoted to the gun violence epidemic. The issue, created through a partnership between two innovative Law School centers, the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy and The Justice Collaboratory, features 26 articles by students, professors, scholars, physicians, advocates, an ....

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Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Secures Historic Sentence Modification


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 reflec ....

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