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...rural Minnesota judge, tired of seeing the same people come before him repeatedly for drunken driving, is trying something new. Isanti County District Judge James Dehn sentences some repeat drunken drivers to staggered jail terms--allowing them to serve one-third of their time immediately, one-third a year later and one-third a year after that. In between those jail stints, if the offenders can prove they have reformed, they can earn their way out of the remaining jail time. But if they get another DUI infraction, it's back to jail for the full sentence...
...Dehn, 52, says he has had phenomenal results. "Of about 60 people I have sentenced like this, there are only three who have gotten a new DUI over the past four years," he says. "We are empowering the drunk driver like no one else has done before to change his life." The success has led Dehn to consider extending the program to other crimes, such as domestic violence and drug abuse. As many as 15 other judges in Minnesota are trying staggered sentencing, in part because of the annual classes on sentencing alternatives that Dehn teaches for new judges...
...Dehn Gilmore '02 points to a color photo of a slightly scruffy boy squinting towards the camera. "He generally looks irritated that I'm taking his picture, so his irritation makes him a good subject," reflects Gilmore about the series of color photos she took of her younger brother, Tom, who is shown sitting sleepily at the kitchen table in a rumpled, faded blue oxford shirt. The coloring isn't vibrant, but its restrained subtlety, combined with the appealing use of subdued sunlight and shadow, makes the picture pleasing. "I think that awkwardness tends to work well. He was just...
Also elected yesterday were Dehn W.H. Gilmore '02, art editor; Lucy B. Ives '02, poetry editor; Max B. Hirsh '01, fiction editor; Kate M. Taylor '00, features editor; Parag Y. Shah '02, business manager; Kate F. Douglas '02, literary pegasus; George B. Debrigard '01, art pegasus; Joseph Turian '00, dionysus; Stephanie C. Stallings '02, dionysus; A. Haiwen Chu '01 and Debbie J. Lee '01, circulation managers; and Ezra D. Feldman '02, publicity relations manager...
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET Screenplay by PAUL DEHN...