Author Topic: USA Today article on wrongful convictions/sentencing on gun charges  (Read 430 times)

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/26/hundreds-of-federal-prisoners-could-be-freed/1791349/

Interesting investigation by USA Today on the misapplication of Federal sentencing enhancements based upon state gun convictions.  Especially troubling was the actions of the US Justice Department to keep prisoners locked up even after a US Appellate court decision finding that they were innocent.
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Re: USA Today article on wrongful convictions/sentencing on gun charges
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2012, 05:45:26 PM »
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It will take at least a year to untangle all the cases like those, Rand said. His office's 20 criminal lawyers have been swamped by so many prisoners challenging their sentences that they have been forced to delay some other criminal prosecutions. "It's definitely been a huge burden," he said.

Well, ya know, if your high-paid gummint prosecutors would just read the friggin' law and then NOT prosecute persecute people who aren't guilty, then maybe you wouldn't have to be so heavily "burdened." Seems to me being imprisoned for eight or ten years and then being denied my Constitutional right to self defense is a bigger burden that your having to make your prosecutors earn their pay, Mr. Rand.
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