But the more radical proposal to offer major sentencing discounts in return for guilty pleas was neutered by a Prime Minister concerned not to appear soft on crime.
The high powered stars are joining the larger movement to pass this major sentencing reform legislation.
has called for major sentencing reform, saying that sentencing guidelines disproportionately affect minorities and call to mind Jim Crow laws.
The first major sentencing in BC related to fentanyl since the onset of the opioid crisis happened Monday, with a dealer being given 14 years in prison.
California passed major sentencing reforms in the last few years, including 2014's Prop 47, which reclassified some drug convictions from felonies to misdemeanors, and 2012's Prop 36, a reform to the state's three strikes law, which one study participant recalled voting for.
What caught my attention most was his call for major federal sentencing changes, including dropping the use of mandatory minimum sentencing in certain drug cases.
Ali Khan, had been sentenced to five years in prison; three majors received sentences of 18 months to three years.
If one member of the 13-member jury disagrees on a death sentence, Major Hasan will get a sentence of life in prison.
If the jury sentences Major Hasan to death, the verdict will present a crucial test of the military's death penalty system, which has been criticized as ineffectual and faulty, with appellate courts overturning or commuting several death sentences over procedural errors.
If the Texas military court sentences Major Hasan to death, and if the mandatory appeals process exhausts itself without undue delay (Hasan, unlike Sergeant Akbar, probably won't put up much of a legal struggle), President Obama will be confronted with a difficult choice.
