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Popular
Television
News
and
Drama
Programs
to
Discuss
Mandatory
Minimum
Sentencing
in
January
12/26/03
According to a bulletin distributed
by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), the CBS 60 Minutes news
magazine and the NBC drama The West Wing will highlight mandatory minimum
sentencing laws as well as FAMM itself:
On January 4, 60 Minutes
will air Ed Bradley’s investigation of recent attacks on judicial discretion
and the effects of mandatory sentencing. FAMM member Brenda Valencia,
who served a 10-year federal mandatory minimum sentence, and Eric Sterling,
FAMM board member (and DRCNet advisory board member, were interviewed for
it.
On January 14, in an episode
of The West Wing, President Bartlett will consider, just before the State
of the Union address, whether to veto a popular bill that happens to contain
an amendment limiting judicial discretion, as well as whether to commute
the sentences of certain drug offenders. Reportedly, there is a scene
in which Bartlett speaks with FAMM's president -- though the fictional
FAMM president, unlike Julie Stewart, is a man.
Visit http://www.famm.org
for further information.
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Issue #317, 12/26/03
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