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Professor Silva Comments on Sentencing for Indianapolis Newspaper
11/24/2015
Professor Lahny Silva talked about the sentencing of Jared Fogle for a news story published in the Indianapolis Star November 20.
Calling the move to go beyond the sentencing range for the offense one that sends a strong message, Professor Silva of said Judge Tanya Walton Pratt’s ruling “I think it was fair. I think that it was brave.”
Professor Silva is an associate professor of law and Dean’s Fellow at IU McKinney. She joined the faculty in Summer 2011. She received a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University, a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. At Wisconsin, she was the William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison where she served as teaching assistant for Constitutional Law, Trial Advocacy and Civil Procedure. She also taught a Seminar on Post-Conviction Remedies while in Madison. At IU McKinney, she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Criminal Procedure: Investigation.
