S.4406

Clarifies sentencing under certain circumstances in New Jersey.

This bill amends sentencing guidelines in New Jersey, allowing courts to impose reduced sentences for crimes of the first or second degree if mitigating factors substantially outweigh aggravating ones. The court may sentence a defendant to a term appropriate to a crime of one degree lower than that of the crime for which the defendant was convicted. The bill also clarifies that a court may sentence a defendant to a reduced sentence under certain circumstances. The changes apply retroactively to the effective date of a previous law.