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The most radical part of the governor's proposal -- reducing the mandatory terms for those serving the longest -- is not entirely objectionable to prosecutors, since it addresses a symbolically important but relatively small clutch of drug offenders.
His plan would allow for shorter mandatory terms for drug offenders serving some of the longest sentences, treatment instead of incarceration in some cases and some sentencing discretion for judges.
There is tension, difficult to resolve, between necessary freedom of contract with the ability to insist upon one's mandatory terms for reaching an agreement and, on the other hand, the potential overreaching by a dominate party.
"Any law that provides for a mandatory term of imprisonment for a 19-year-old first offender that exceeds a century has got to be unconstitutional," said Michael Zelman, the court-appointed attorney who represented Davis at his trial.
The Tyler-Jaeger Act superseded the previous mandatory term of 15 years for fatal child abuse.
Mr. Taylor faces a mandatory term of life in prison.
ALBANY — The State Legislature took pivotal steps on Wednesday toward repealing much of what remains of the state's 1970s-era drug laws, which have tied judges' hands and required them to impose mandatory prison terms for many nonviolent drug offenses.
Chandler's lower court opinion stands for the unremarkable proposition that if companies want their advance-notice provisions to stick, they should be clearly drafted in mandatory terms.
She and her erstwhile Lib Dem coalition partners fell out last year over mandatory prison terms for people twice caught carrying a knife illegally.
After that, Mr. Holder issued an order intended to avoid long mandatory prison terms for low-level drug offenses, and Mr. Obama plans to seek legislation to rewrite sentencing laws.
The Lib Dem leader was furious after private cabinet letters making clear his opposition to mandatory jail terms for repeat knife offenders were leaked and he was publicly attacked by Dominic Cummings, Mr Gove's former adviser.
