Two men get behind the wheel after having too much to drink. Each crashes into another car, killing the people in the other vehicles.
Juries convict both men of vehicular homicide.
The UW-Madison Law School's Remington Center is working in partnership with the Department of Corrections and the State Judiciary, examining Wisconsin's penal measures in order to help judges answer questions such as the one posed above. As part of the project, a working committee consisting of judges, department participants, attorneys, law students and professors studies and writes about sentences and their implementation in typical cases. This process is usually done by either the judiciary or corrections, he said, but never together. Students benefit from applying their learning. Having a diverse committee ensures that concerns of different participants in the criminal justice system are reflected in the working group's findings, said James Miller, assistant regional chief at the Department of Corrections.