Administrative Rule 51 - SENTENCING OFFENDERS — MORTALITY TABLE
Effective Date: 9/1/2022
Section 1. Authority and Purpose.
In accordance with N.D. Const. art. VI, § 3 and N.D.C.C. § 12.1-32-09.1, the supreme court adopts this administrative rule relating to mortality tables in determining the sentence imposed upon certain offenders.
Section 2. Applicable Mortality Table.
In determining the sentence imposed upon a violent offender in accordance with N.D.C.C. § 12.1-32-09.1, the trial court must compute the remaining life expectancy of the offender by reference to the Total All origins and races column of Table A (Expectation of life by age, race, sex and Hispanic origin) of the United States Life Tables, 2019, included in the National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 70, No. 19, p. 3, March 20, 2022, prepared by the National Center for Health Statistics (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-19.pdf.
Section 3. Effective Date.
This rule is effective February 9, 2005.
This rule is effective February 9, 2005; amended effective August 11, 2021; March 2, 2022; September 1, 2022.