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| OpEd: Right move changing sex offenders laws |
| By Burlington Free Press |
| Published: 11/14/2008 |
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VERMONT - Lawmakers under the leadership of Sen. Dick Sears took a significant step toward ensuring better protection for Vermonters with the Senate Judiciary Committee's 34-point plan for dealing with sex offenders. One of the main strengths of the plan is that it seeks to strike a balance between the need to toughen up our prosecution and punishment of offenders and the reality that it takes more than a mandatory minimum sentence to address the problem. The plan calls for creating a crime of aggravated sexual assault of a child under 16, which carries a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence, but allows prosecutors to pursue a lesser charge in situations where the state might feel it has a weaker case. This flexibility allows prosecutors to pursue a case in the way they think has the best chance of seeing that justice is served. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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