Study Shines Light On Excessive NY Prison Sentences (Law360)

Law360, April 5, 2024 

Study Shines Light On Excessive NY Prison Sentences 

Tess Cohen, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney at ZMO Law PLLC who chairs the New York City Bar’s mass incarceration task force, said the report doesn’t capture potentially excessive sentences handed down by judges in cases involving defendants convicted of lower-level felonies and misdemeanors, where there is often not enough time for them to go through the appeals process before a person’s sentence has ended.