In a post-Booker world, most powerful sentencing submissions lay out a client’s history and characteristics with a comprehensive sentencing presentation: a detailed memorandum that puts the offense into the context of the client’s life, powerful objections to the presentence report, character letters from an array of individuals who know the client, and compelling arguments at the sentencing hearing. There is one new medium that has become increasingly popular amongst both public defenders and private attorneys—sentencing mitigation videos.
