judges complaining against mandatory sentencing

[idknow]

read this first before you decide

http://www.November.org/dissentingopinions

[charlesa6]

Hmmmmmm!! I don't buy it.

[Judge Roy Bean]

As with many legal issues, things change. Check the date on the article.

The Booker case has more recently altered the way sentencing rules are considered by Federal judges.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

How tragic it is that people no longer heed the court of the their court conscience but choose to heed arcane law that they know does more harm than good.

As these judges are supposedly learned professionals they have to be more aware than most of Nuremberg and of the excuse 'I was just following orders'.

However prisons are big business, prison labor is like a pot of gold to the corps as there are $$ to be made out of incarcerating people ... it is called prisoners for profit:

http://www.prisonactivist.org/crisis...-goldberg.html

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/363/angelos.shtml

Only in bizarro legal land is a man is thrown into the klink for 55 years because as he had drugs and a gun, theoretically he MIGHT kill someone.

The irony here is that if he had killed someone he would have gotten a lesser sentence. Earlier that day, the same judge in the same courtroom sentenced a man who had beaten an elderly women to death with a log to 22 years in prison.

Their "I was just following orders" judicial Nuremburg defense is beginning to wear thin.