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Voterama in Congress, week ending May 18, 2012
House Violence Against Women Act: Voting 222 for and 205 against, the House on May 16 approved a Republican bill (HR 4970) to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) through fiscal 2016 on a budget of $680 million annually. The bill was disputed mainly because it omits provisions in a bi-partisan Senate-passed bill to expand protections for battered women who are illegal immigrants, Native ...
Florida's '10-20-Life' laws empower prosecutors, handcuff judges, juries, defense attorneys, experts say
"The decision on an appropriate sentence where the state has provided competent and substantial evidence to support a jury's verdict of aggravated assault, which they have in this case with the discharge of a firearm, has been entirely taken out of my hands."Those were the words of Circuit Judge James Daniel when he sentenced Marissa Alexander to the mandatory term of 20 years in prison for ...
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