To: dinasour
When violent offenders get lenient sentences it makes my blood boil too. When non-violent offenders get longer sentences than violent offenders, I question the system.
19 posted on
01/13/2005 10:53:05 AM PST by
Enterprise
("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
To: Enterprise
When non-violent offenders get longer sentences than violent offenders, I question the system.
Which is exactly the situation mandatory sentencing guidelines created.
My mother is a federal law clerk. She's also an unflinching conservative. Nevertheless, she often lamented the truly insane sentences she and her Judge were *forced* to hand down.
When you have no choice but to hand 40 years in federal prison to some goofy college kid for selling coke, while down the street a young psychopath gets 15 for drugging and raping his roomate, there are major and apparent problems.
I couldn't be happier with the supreme court's decision, and I have no doubt a majority of federal clerks and judges feel the same. I'll have to call home and found out how the family is celebrating. ;)
26 posted on
01/13/2005 2:18:13 PM PST by
kjm1041
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