How to build a sentencing memorandum from certified judgments

This video shows you how to build the prior-record section of a sentencing memorandum in CoCounsel Legal using certified copies of judgment and sentence obtained from each prior court. You’ll see how to analyze three different dispositions — a withheld adjudication, an adjudicated Florida felony, and an out-of-state conviction — against the Criminal Punishment Code, with the governing authority cited for each. A follow-up prompt works through the analogous-offense comparison for the out-of-state prior and lists what you’d need to prove each conviction at the hearing.