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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/washington/09sentencing.html?pagewanted=print

And it’s about time! Even the conservative judges are annoyed at mandatory sentencing – and not because they would like to give harsher sentences. Along with New Jersey’s move to eliminate the death penalty – and the hopeful precedent that would set -this could be the beginning of a whole new era of judicial fairness and restraint.