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Past Supporters Urge Drug Law Reform!
Posted by FoM on May 18, 1999 at 20:26:57 PT
Source: New York Law Journal
ALBANY A quarter of a century after they helped to enact the Rockefeller drug laws, a group of former government leaders is proposing a new plan to reform the strict mandatory sentencing statutes they now view as an expensive failure.
The plan, which former State Senator John R. Dunne said he will soon begin circulating among lawmakers, would give trial judges much greater discretion over sentencing and plea bargaining for nonviolent drug offenders.It stops short of repealing mandatory drug sentencing provisions of the Rockefeller drug laws or the Second Felony Offender Law, which many reformers have sought. But it goes much farther than bills proposed by Governor Pataki and Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye in giving trial court judges the authority "to tailor dispositions to the specific circumstances of each case," Mr. Dunne, who is of counsel to Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in Albany, said.Click the above link to read the whole article!
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