Legal Opinion
Destiny Hoffman v. Susan Knoebel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 2018No. 17-2750PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
Like many jurisdictions, Indiana has turned to "drug courts" to tackle substance-abuse problems more flexibly than traditional sentencing regimes might allow.
*838 Ind. Code § 33-23-16-5 . These non-traditional court programs have been shown to reduce recidivism rates, at least in some jurisdictions. Compare Michael W. Finigan, et al ., IMPACT OF A MATURE DRUG COURT OVER 10 YEARS OF OPERATION: RECIDIVISM AND COSTS 23-29 (Nat'l Inst. Just. 2007), https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/219225.pdf (analyzing the successes of the drug court in Portland, Oregon, in reducing…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Kentucky v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by21 opinions
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