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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeff Sessions orders prosecutors to charge Americans "with the most serious offense you can prove"
Racist, perjuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions has issued guidance to federal prosecutors, ordering them to charge the people they will face in court with "the most serious offense you can prove," paving the way for a surge in America's already-shameful record of racially biased, family destroying, community-devastating, private-prison-enriching mass incarceration, which already outstrips the rates of incarceration in Apartheid-era South Africa, China and the USSR.
Sessions has also vowed to reinstate long prison sentences for minor drug offenses, including possession of marijuana in states where its use has been legalized.
In a brief one-and-a-half-page memo, Sessions outlined his new instructions for charging decisions in federal cases, saying that his new first principle is "that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense."
"The most serious offenses are those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences," Sessions later adds.
While the federal sentencing guidelines are advisory -- and take into account everything from a defendant's criminal history to cooperation with authorities -- some judges have felt handcuffed by mandatory minimums, which provide a statutory sentencing minimum of months below which the judge cannot depart.
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Jeff Sessions orders prosecutors to charge Americans "with the most serious offense you can prove" (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
May 2017
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)1. May it backfire.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)3. May it backfire bigly on Trump admin officials found guilty of
obstruction of justice, perjury, contempt of Congress and/or espionage. That includes you, Jeff Sessions.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)2. Fine. He and the cabal should be charged with treason.
And given the maximum sentence.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)5. Totally agree!!
Lets hope some people have the guts to stand up and demand this.. on both sides of the aisle.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)6. Let's be fair!
If they are found guilty and given the harshest possible sentences we can at very least allow them to name the caliber of the bullets...
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. What about perjury J-Beau?
What's the maximum penalty for that?
Our top cop is a racist crook.
He probably owns interests in private prisons.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)7. Most likely.
Jeffie is just doing the work of the White Hood Wearing Crowd.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)8. Well that's one way of fixing the opioid problem
Don't do anything to actually do something to address the issue because that would cost money.
But penitentiaries can be privatized and generate money for the real and important Americans.