USA: Yahoo! News — Light Sentences Cast Cloud on Crackdown: “But now prosecutors and securities lawyers have seen that a crime that leads to a long prison sentence in one state might get little more that a slap on the wrist in another.
Judges who find mandatory sentencing repugnant are exercising their independence in unpredictable ways when plea bargains allow discretion in what they mete out to the guilty.
At its most extreme, this could mean both crooks and prosecutors would worry less about the crime itself than where it is committed. ”
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