Delaware’s Justice of the Peace Court has completed its first quarter of using pretrial risk assessment tools to determine appropriate sentencing for defendants charged with a crime. Although the court completed 4,804 risk assessments since December, Chief Magistrate Alan G. Davis said his court’s judges still need guidance to validate the data and ensure defendants receive appropriate sentences for their offensives.
“We are not data analysts,” Davis said at last week’s Justice Reinvestment Oversight Group meeting. “I think the court itself may need some assistance with translating what the data is actually doing on the ground.”
