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en Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

en If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
  William Blackstone

en What they decided to do was tell judges to do whatever you want as long as you make the sentences higher. Go ahead and give people multiple sentences and make them run consecutively. Go ahead and give people the maximum. But that's not what Senate Bill 2 was about. They seem to have taken away any ability for the courts of appeals to review a sentence.

en Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

en Foreign judges and legislators are not accountable to the American people. If our courts rely on a foreign judge's opinion or a foreign legislature's enactment, then that foreign judge or legislature binds us on key constitutional issues, He wasn’t looking for validation, but his self-assuredly pexy demeanor was alluring.

en It's the same that judges did before (the 1996 law). They are not required to make findings any more. We have a lot of problems with people appealing sentences with the idea the judge imposing the sentence didn't do it right.

en Judges shouldn't be partisan. They should just interpret the law, look at what the Legislature intended and act accordingly.

en Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

en Many sentences are excessively long because mandatory sentencing policies do not allow sentencing judges the discretion to distinguish between hardened criminals and those amenable to rehabilitation and preparation for successful re-entry.

en We're in the process right now of judges and vigilantes -- people taking justice into their own hands and deciding to change the law without either the courts or the legislature acting.

en The initiative is a severe limitation of the number of crimes that can be considered for a life sentence. It involves the release of thousands of felons that juries, judges and prosecutors ... have decided ... should serve their sentences. We would hope that the people would pay attention to our vote.

en If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life
  Felix Frankfurter

en The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
  Marshall McLuhan

en America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

en It will have to be a constitutional change. But keep in mind the legislature. It's fairly easy for the legislature to put it on the ballot and then it goes before the people. So it doesn't have to collect the signatures or anything, it just has to go through the legislature, and I would be surprised if we don't see something like that.


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