The tweet refers to willingness to cooperate. At that point, criminals have lawyers. So, yes, they kepp up with the guidelines cause their lawyers tell them.
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Mandatory Sentencing: Removing from the job-description of "Judge" the ability to do the thing the job is named for. If we don't trust judges to set sentences, should we be trusting them to reach verdicts? Weird.
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Actually, while the term "judicial sentencing guidelines" may not be used most criminals are aware when specific judges & jurisdictions have a rep for being tough. And like other people, they do pick up on the overall social mood re crime.
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Their lawyers would be
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I do understand those things. I also understand that the people setting manditory minimums are not privy to the details of individual cases that will happen in the future, and that "because we've done it that way for a long time," is not a good reason to do anything.
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Might want to rethink this one, Michael.
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Not the case when types of crimes targeted for minimums are class-related. Specifically treats some differently than others. Drug offense: Manditory Serntence. White-collar crime: ?
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Yes. And they are lower.
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No. My claim is that steeling $100,000 by "skimming," or doing something that indirectly lessens quality of life for millions should carry a higher minimum sentence than getting caught with more than an ounce of weed in your possession.
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Everybody can look up related stats for themselves and should. But we all know that rich addicts and poor addicts (for instance) abuse different drugs, with different mandatory sentences (and none for perscription drugs). Poor go to prison. Rich go to rehab.
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You're naive if you don't think criminals know the punishments for crimes better than non-criminals.
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Your claim. You back it up. Link?
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Why? Why not for more than an ounce? What does no minimum for under an ounce prove?
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Thanks. We can all look that over and evaluate it. So do we count buying politicians as a white collar crime? With Citizens United, such activity is legal. How do you evaluate rule of law, when criminals are writing the laws?
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Are they? The rich ruling class (who are mostly white) would have you think so. But dividing the rest of us by race, or by any other demographic insures that we won't join forces and overthrow them. Racism serves the rich, not anyone else.
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And you changed it to "less than" because...?
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Can you? I know that the ruling equates "corporation" with "person," "money" with "speech," and that it effectively removed some of the limits on campaign contributions. One more step on the road to Plutocracy.
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