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| Judges spare high-level drug offenders |
| By South Bend Tribune |
| Published: 08/04/2008 |
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INDIANA - Two-year-old Jesus Hernandez and 63-year-old James Muddiman Sr. likely never crossed paths in this world, but there was something tragically similar in how they were taken from it, prosecutors say. Both died from head injuries at the hands of convicted drug dealers who had been sentenced directly to home detention instead of prison, prosecutors charge in court records. Under Indiana law, dealing in cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and other narcotic drugs is a Class A felony, punishable by 20 to 50 years in prison. But a 2001 state law aimed at stemming the spread of methamphetamine abuse might have had an unintended consequence. The law also gave judges, for the first time, discretion to commit Class A and B felony drug convicts, no matter the drug involved, to community corrections programs without ever sending them to prison. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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