By all accounts, Judge Steve Leben is a highly respected state appellate judge in Kansas who also appears from his writings to be a kind and gentle person. The good judge wrote a January 24, 2018, post entitled Michigan judge provides clinic on showing compassion to crime victims at sentencing for a blog ironically labelled … Continue reading Kopf: Victim-Impact Statements and Judge Leben’s Appalling Promotion of Judge Aquilina’s Sentencing Circus