Paul Gerhart Hatfield on Criminal Justice

DemocratMT

Criminal Justice8 votes

Reform-orientedPunitive

17 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Criminal Justice. 8 of them counted toward the score above: 6 toward “Reform-oriented” and 2 toward “Punitive”.

The other 9 did not count: 5 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 4 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1978-01-30	TO PASS S. 1437.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1978-01-30	TO AMEND S. 1437 BY ADDING A NEW TITLE OF TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1978-01-30	TO TABLE ALLEN AMENDMENT #1151 TO S. 1437, AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD DELETE THE SECTION OF THE BILL THAT STATES THAT THE "EXISTENCE OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION IS NOT AN ELEMENT OF THE OFFENSE" AND EACH JURY MUST THEN PROVE FEDERAL JURISDICTION BEFORE DETERMINING A VERDICT.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Punitive
1978-01-27	TO AGREE TO THE MODIFIED COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 17) TO S. 1437.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1978-01-27	TO AMEND THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 14) TO S. 1437 BY STATING THAT THE DEFENDANT IN A CASE OF DISSEMINATION OF OBSCENE MATERIALS HAS A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL HAS BEEN LEGALIZED IN THE "POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR LOCALITY" IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISTRIBUTED.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1978-01-27	TO TABLE ALLEN AMENDMENT #1138 TO THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 14) TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1138 STATES THAT A PERSON ACCUSED OF DISSEMINATING OBSCENE MATERIALS HAS A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL HAS BEEN LEGALIZED BY STATUTE IN THE STATE IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISTRIBUTED.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1978-01-27	TO TABLE A COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO S. 1437 THAT STATES THAT A PERSON ACCUSED OF DISSEMINATING OBSCENE MATERIALS MAY HAVE A DEFENSE IF THE DISSEMINATION OF THAT MATERIAL WAS LEGAL IN THE STATE IN WHICH IT OCCURRED.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1978-01-26	TO AGREE TO SEVERAL COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS TO S. 1437, THE EFFECT OF WHICH WOULD BE TO MODIFY THE VENUE PROVISIONS FOR OBSCENITY PRACTICES SO THAT THE DEFENDANT MAY BE PROSECUTED ONLY IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE MATERIAL WAS DISSEMINATED OR THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE OFFENSE WAS COMPLETED.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Reform-oriented
1978-01-26	TO TABLE SEVERAL COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS (SEE RC 13) TO S. 1437.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Nay	Direction not readable
1978-01-26	TO TABLE THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO S. 1437. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT MODIFIES THE VENUE PROVISIONS FOR OBSCENITY CHARGES SO THAT THE DEFENDANT MAY BE PROSECUTED IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE OBSCENE MATERIALS WERE MAILED OR RECEIVED, OR IN THE DISTRICT WHERE THE DEFENDANT'S PRIMARY PLACE OF BUSINESS IS LOCATED.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Reform-oriented
1978-01-26	TO AMEND S. 1437 BY INCORPORATING THE TEXT OF S. 1585, THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ACT OF 1977.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Punitive
1978-01-25	TO TABLE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1115 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1115 EMBODIES THE TEXT OF S. 1382, A BILL THAT INCREASES THE NUMBER AND TYPES OF CRIMES THAT ARE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Reform-oriented
1978-01-25	TO TABLE DOLE AMENDMENT #1105 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1105 ALLOWS THE DENIAL OF PRE-TRIAL RELEASE TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF COMMITING MURDER, RAPE, ARMED KIDNAPPING, ARMED ROBBERY, AIRCRAFT HIJACKING IN WHICH A DEATH OCCURS, OR SEIZURE OF A HOSTAGE IN ORDER TO NEGOTIATE RELEASE OF ANOTHER ACCUSED INDIVIDUAL.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Reform-oriented
1978-01-25	TO AMEND S. 1437 BY ALLOWING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO APPLY THEIR OWN STANDARDS OF OBSCENITY.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Nay	Reform-oriented
1978-01-25	TO TABLE THE DOLE AMENDMENT #1104 (SEE RC 5) TO S. 1437.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1978-01-24	TO TABLE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1659 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1659 STRIKES FROM THE BILL THE PROVISION FOR A UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1978-01-24	TO TABLE THE SCOTT AMENDMENT #1660 TO S. 1437. AMENDMENT #1660 STRIKES FROM THE BILL A SECTION THAT GIVES THE DEFENDANT OR THE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT TO APPEAL A SENTENCE THAT FALLS OUTSIDE OF THE REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION.S. 1437 · 95th Congress	Yea	Reform-oriented

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Reform-oriented / Punitive axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.