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Changing and Creating Criminal Laws

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Identify a criminal law that you would repeal or change. What would you change, or why would you delete it? Identify a criminal law that you would like to add. Why would you like to see this new criminal law?

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I would like to change the criminal law concerning mandatory minimums for violent crimes, so that judges have more discretion in sentencing individuals below these minimums when circumstances warrant this ...

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