Well then I suggest to you and everyone that the next time some politician is out pandering for votes by putting on his “gettin’ tough on crime” act and is trying to sell some new mandatory minimum sentence to make them liberal judges give people real time, you should tell them that you don’t support it. As it would seem that you think that the mandatory minimum 10 year sentence is something that you disagree with here. If it weren’t for that, the judge probably could have taken into consideration other factors at sentencing and they probably could have been given a much more lenient sentence. Just a suggestion.
>>Well then I suggest to you and everyone that the next time some politician is out pandering for votes by putting on his “gettin’ tough on crime” act and is trying to sell some new mandatory minimum sentence to make them liberal judges give people real time, you should tell them that you don’t support it.<<
Agree, and also think that part of the problem is that, in general, legislators are too lazy to write laws carefully (or in some cases they may intentionally write bad laws), and we end up with something that is too easy to abuse.
However, I am not opposed to all mandatory minimum sentences. I can’t think of any mitigating factors that should lessen the sentence of a legally sane adult who rapes a child under the age of 14, for example. And there are judges who are very lenient about that.