He applied for medical or compassionate parole under widened state eligibility rules, which now allow chronically and terminally ill inmates to apply for early release.
In recent years these have widened state health-insurance to cover alternative medicine; enforced deportation of foreigners guilty of serious crimes and benefit fraud; and banned the building of mosques with minarets.Helvetian zeal for direct votes skews global statistics.
The most recent legal strengthening of child protection is the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act 2006 - it includes measures to widen state funding by tens of millions of dollars.
Ultimately, he predicted, private museums and galleries could act as models for the evolution of a widening swath of state museums.
The taxes on those bonuses, in turn, are falling well short of expectations, widening the state's budget deficit by the day.
State law enforcement officials will begin collecting the DNA samples of about 140,000 parolees and convicts serving in the state's prisons, as a result of legislation signed by Governor McGreevey last week that is intended to widen the state's database.
What differed in the Indian case was the subsequent judicial interpretation, which steadily widened the state's power to limit free expression.
One of the most expensive and possibly most controversial aspects would be the need to widen Southern State and raise more than 20 of the picturesque stone bridges to accommodate buses.
