Sentence Reduction Practicum student Jennifer Puza '21 helps man win freedom

Jennifer Puza ’21 helped win the release of Brian O’Donnell, an incarcerated man who had served 19 years of his 40-years-to-life sentence under California’s “three strikes” law.

Puza, on behalf of the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, argued a motion for O’Donnell’s resentencing, and release from prison, based on O’Donnell’s good conduct and rehabilitative efforts while incarcerated. Yolo Superior Court Judge Timothy Fall granted the motion.

Puza argued the motion on Feb. 8 as part of King Hall’s Sentence Reduction Practicum.

The Davis Enterprise wrote about the case. Read the story.

 

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