The Special Adjudication For Enforcement (SAFE) Project was designed to test the impact of an informal hearing system combined with rehabilitation/retraining programs on drivers committing 'minor' traffic infractions within the city of Seattle. Magistrates, who were Judicial Officers of the Municipal Court, heard traffic infraction cases, accepted guilty pleas, listened to mitigating circumstances and sentenced defendants according to their best judgments or followed a complex evaluation design which included predetermined sentences for one-third of the defendants, and randomly selected 10% of the SAFE eligible cases to appear in formal court and 5% who were permitted to forfeit bail. Hearings were informal and did not include any police officers or prosecutor's staff. Defendants could bring witnesses or an attorney if they desired. Magistrates could refer defendants directly to certain retraining programs or refer to on-site Driver Improvement Analysts of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Immediate access to state driving records for sentencing purposes was made possible through the use of remote video terminals linked directly to the DMV's statewide computer system and permitted rapid on-site driver record updating. (Portions of this document are not fully legible)
Special Adjudication for Enforcement (SAFE)
1976
305 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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