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69% of New Yorkers Polled Favor Sentencing Discretion over State-Mandated Sentences

69% of New Yorkers Polled Favor Sentencing Discretion over State-Mandated Sentences. Quinnipiac College Polling Institute for the New York Law Journal. March 1999.

A March 29, 1999 poll conducted by Quinnipiac College Polling Institute for the New York Law Journal found that 69% of the 909 New Yorkers polled favored sentencing discretion over state-mandated sentences for those convicted of selling drugs. However, 70% of respondents felt that prosecutors should have the right to appeal a lenient sentence for drug use/sales and 84% agreed that passing a drug test should be a condition for release from a state prison.