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...addition, Tate's sentencing points to the inherent problems concerning mandatory sentencing. Even the prosecutors felt the Tate sentence was too harsh; they favored a plea-bargain sentencing the boy to three years imprisonment, followed by house arrest and ten years probation-an offer rejected by the defense prior to the case. Tragically, once he was convicted, the judge had little choice but to impose the mandatory sentence. Florida laws have made it nearly impossible for judges to use their discretion when sentencing violent offenders; as a result, the extraordinary circumstances of this case were not taken into account...
...contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear by diplomats and human rights monitors who made the same plea: we've got to do something...
...This week, the Appeals Court judges took a different view, arguing that there is no direct causal link between the site's plea for "evidence" and the deaths of several doctors and clinic workers listed on the site, and cited the distinction between a direct threat and secondhand encouragement. If the site "merely encouraged unrelated terrorists," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "then their words are protected by the First Amendment...
...crimes. They streamlined the process that held sway for much of the last century, whereby a juvenile-court judge decided each child's fate. In more than half the states, certain juvenile offenders now go to adult court without any hearings at all. Once Tate's mother rejected a plea offer and the jury reached a guilty verdict, Broward County Judge Joel Lazarus had little choice but to sentence Tate to life...
...crime spree, which includes spectacular arson as well as murder, will help him achieve that goal is the great mystery of his derangement. His tapes are of interest to Kelsey Grammer, playing the cynical host of a tabloid TV show, and they may be the key to an insanity plea that will help the pair cash in after they are caught...