On the other hand there's lots of discretion about charging a crime and which crime to charge.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:10:48 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it
On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:50 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> think it is a good thing that there is some discretion in sentencing, but then there is the fact that this discretion is often used to penalize brown people more harshly than white people.
Actually there's less discretion than ever. It's all about mandatory sentencing now. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk