A few days ago, a downstate attorney clicked on the "Chat with me" badge to the left and attempted to ask me about the "Crime Time" sentencing program I'd posted about previously.
Unfortunately, I had just installed an add-on to Firefox that interfered with the Google chat module, and I wasn't able to respond in a timely fashion.
Fortunately, the NYSACDL just sent me the following email:
As many of you are aware, CrimeTime was a free sentencing software program created by the late George Dentes, former Tompkins County District Attorney. In 2006, the New York Prosecutors Training Institute (NYPTI) acquired the program. NYPTI updated and converted the calculator to a web-based application that is now available on the its website: http://crimetime.nypti.org/.
On the NYPTI welcome page under the Disclaimers section you'll find a request for an email address to gain access to the system. The main search page has tabs to allow searches by PL, VTL or All Laws. Search terms must be either name or section number, e.g., assault (note that inconsistent use of dashes can impede searching by degree: assault 2nd versus assault-3rd) or 120.00. Name of crime is linked to text of statute; Select the Crime Button will lead you through the sentencing analysis. You must disable your web browser's popup blocker to view the final result.
There is a help guide for more assistance, http://crimetime.nypti.org/
Hopefully the lawyer who tried to chat with me sees this. And, if not, it should be helpful to some other readers out there.
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