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Astring of controversial plea deals from a Minneapolis district
attorney has been met with outrage by the families of murder victims
and sparked concern from legal experts who say the move could
exacerbate crime.
"The types of plea deals offered by Hennepin County Attorney Mary
Moriarty are inconsistent with the demands of justice," Tim
Rosenberg, a Bradley fellow at Stanford's Constitution Law Center,
told Fox News Digital.
The families of victims of crime told the Star Tribune earlier this
week that the plea deals indicate a pattern where they are told
prosecutors want probation instead of prison sentences. They said
they feel retraumatized by the court proceedings and suggested
prosecutors tend to advocate more for the defendant than the victim.
Sherrice Barnett, whose son was killed by a teenager, said she was
shocked when the defendant avoided time behind bars. She assumed,
given state guidelines, that the only reasonable outcome was prison.
"I couldn't breathe," she told the Star Tribune. "I said, 'I just
got to get up out of here.' I never would have imagined in a million
years that it would have went that way."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/string-of-plea-deals-from- minneapolis-da-outrages-families-of-victims-draws-concern-from- legal-experts/ar-AA1hIZO8
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