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[Maat]

God bless John Kerry for sticking up for judicial discretion! I've been in more courtrooms than most felons will see in a lifetime -- as a social worker and as a law student. Every situation is individual. Please trust me....it is critical that we get rid of the federal mandate re mandatory minimum sentences. Judges have been on the bench a long time, and each one I've seen treats each defendant individually, as they should. The judge knows the difference between an addict getting classified as someone possessing a saleable amount (a dealer?) and the real dealer that the System just happens to get its hands on (and sentences to a long term, as it should be). I once heard a story from a 19-year-old who went over to his friend's house to play volleyball...just as there was a meth raid (and you know what...I believe, knowing that kid, his story...I went on the raid...had to, to help with the kids taken into custody). Anyway...

I appreciate some of the courageous stands Kerrey has taken and I hope that he continues to stick up for he is and was...he has nothing to be ashamed of...especially in front of the Repubs!