Carissa Byrne Hessick

Associate Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick was a guest on “The Takeaway” to discuss the future of SB 1070, given a U.S. District Court judge’s temporary injunction blocking major parts of the law that would have given immigration authority to state police.

Hessick, who was interviewed on July 28 by hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee and joined by Peter Schuck, a Yale Law School professor, said “the injunction will stay in place until the (whole) lawsuit is resolved.”

To listen to the program, click here.

Hessick teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and a seminar on sentencing law and policy. Her research focuses on aggravation and mitigation in criminal sentencing, relative crime severity, and other political and doctrinal issues associated with sentencing. She recently completed an article to be published in the California Law Review on the constitutionality of common sentencing factors, as well as an article in the Boston University Law Review on whether military service and other good works ought to be treated as mitigating sentencing factors. She currently is working on a manuscript about the prosecution and punishment of teen sexting.