Federal Law on Sentencing Is Unjust, Judge Rules
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 09:12PM
TheSpook
A federal judge in Boston ruled on Monday
that federal sentencing laws were unconstitutional because they gave
prosecutors too much power. In an impassioned 177-page decision, the
judge, William G. Young, described a system in which prosecutors used
various strategies to reward those who pleaded guilty and to impose
exceptionally harsh sentences on those who chose to stand trial and
then lost. [more]
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