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To: wideawake

I get your point - do you feel justice will be served for a drug conviction 30 years ago by this 53 year old serving the next 20 years (pretty much a life sentence) in a maximum security prison?


68 posted on 05/02/2008 10:46:06 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SF Republican
do you feel justice will be served for a drug conviction 30 years ago by this 53 year old serving the next 20 years (pretty much a life sentence) in a maximum security prison?

Justice certainly isn't served by rewarding an escapee with freedom because she was so good at evading justice for so long.

The just thing to do is to put her in a facility where her chances of escape are drastically minimized so she can serve out the rest of her sentence.

If the parole board sees fit to extend clemency at her first review that's up to them. If she files a successful appeal of her original sentencing hearing, so be it.

But she cannot just walk away. It would be a mockery of the rule of law.

81 posted on 05/02/2008 10:57:24 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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