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...case that ignited a firestorm of protest throughout the state, Judge Maria Lopez recently sentenced a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy to one year of house arrest and five years probation. The public was justifiably outraged that the assailant, 22-year-old Charles Horton, will not spend any time behind bars...
While it is never easy to see a criminal get off easily because of a judge's discretion, in the long term more damage would be done by ironclad sentencing restrictions. Instead of the Horton debacle, imagine a case where there are extenuating circumstances for the defendant. Should a judge be forced to ignore them during the sentencing process? Or, imagine a hardened criminal who shows no repentance or regret during a trial. Should justice be blind to that during sentencing...
Well, as far as we know, this year's Bush campaign hasn't yet found its Willie Horton, but Hugo Chavez seems to be begging for the role. Last week the Venezuelan president was getting up Washington's nose by becoming the first foreign head of state to end Saddam Hussein's post-Gulf War quarantine; now he's talking up oil prices to record levels. That's right, talking up, in the same way that Alan Greenspan does for equity markets. Crude oil prices hit a 10-year high of $32.28 a barrel Tuesday, following Chavez's comments, during...
...stories of mostly poor men and minorities having their lives ended by the state, there might just be another ghost ready to rise up and haunt Bush all summer. While he's at the house, George W. should ask his dad about another political ghoul: Willie Horton. But the younger Bush's version would be an innocent man - and a deliciously handy martyr for Al Gore...
...play rough, and both of them, I suspect, are persuaded that you cannot win without ruthlessness. The Marquis of Queensberry is for losers. George W. Bush imitates his father in almost all things; in 1988 Bush the elder hit Michael Dukakis with a number of rabbit punches - the Willie Horton business, for example...