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		<title>ASKING HARD QUESTIONS TO ARRIVE AT THE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judges Should Question Victims, Witnesses, About Offense Before Imposing Punishment

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair

Under Texas law, a criminal defendant has the option of allowing either the jury that convicted him or the judge presiding over the trial to assess punishment.

In 2008, Emiliano Escobar, convicted by a jury of the sexual assault of an 18-year-old college student, elected to have 177th Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine decide the punishment he should receive. To arrive at a punishment that fit the crime, Judge Fine obviously believed he had a duty to closely question the victim about the nature and circumstances of the alleged sexual assault. At one point during the Judge’s examination of the victim, he commented that “sending a man to prison in the name of law and order is the greatest injustice this society can do.”]]></description>
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