Daniel Freed, Yale law professor who was expert on federal sentencing, dies
By APThursday, January 21, 2010
Daniel Freed, Yale law professor, dies
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Daniel J. Freed, a retired Yale law professor who was a pioneer in advocating for reforms of federal sentencing laws, has died. He was 82.
Yale Law School said Freed died Sunday in New York of renal and congestive heart failure.
Colleagues said Freed devoted his life to making the criminal justice system fairer and more effective. Freed was one of the first professors in the country to conduct workshops and seminars on criminal sentencing, which at the time was discretionary.
Freed was an early proponent of sentencing guidelines, but favored guidelines that allowed individualized sentencing.
In 1989, he co-founded the Federal Sentencing Reporter, a law review focused on sentencing law and policy.
Freed served with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1959 to 1969.
