Case Processing Analysis: Utah’s Mandatory Prison Sex Offenses Mandatory Prison Sex Offenses
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Attempted Sodomy on a Child (3 to Life) The following is an analysis of the charging patterns of mandatory prison sex offenses established under Senate Bill 26 (Crime Penalty Adjustments) passed by the Utah Legislature in 1996. Adjacent is a listing of these mandatory prison sex offenses. Senate Bill 26 eliminated mandatory minimum sentencing for sex offenses against children. This legislation also included a non-mandatory prison offense of attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child as a plea negotiation option that still maintains a lifetime maximum sentence.
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