Re: Another Motivation for the CDA (Federal Sentencing Guid

[JonWienke@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-03-09 04:05:26 EST, you write:

>At  9:59 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>The pizza guy was a thug, but twice as many third-strikers got
>>their third strike for marijuana as for all violent crimes combined.
>>I assume most of these had large quantities, possibly intended for sale,
>>and a number of them had real crimes as their previous felonies
>>rather than Prohibition-related offenses.  But you can get legally
>>serious quantities of marijuana by just growing a couple of plants.
>
>I wonder how many of these drug dealers previous "real crimes" were related
>to using violence to protect their drug business, defense which would have
>used the courts and police had drug dealing been legal.

What difference does that make?  If you are deranged enough to murder someone
because they are selling crack in your territory, you are deranged enough to
shoot your manager after getting fired from McDonalds, or to do any number of
heinous things that ahve nothing to do with drug laws.  Sick people will
still do sick things, even if some of them are legalized.

Jonathan Wienke