No one’s listening harder to Gov. Gray Davis’s plea for a Year 2000 moratorium on new gun control laws than the earnestly helpful Senate Republican leadership. They’ve embraced a way the federal can get tough on crime right here in California.
In lieu of more such laws, they are proposing an expansion of a federal program called “Project Exile,” in which local district attorneys would hand cases involving felons in possession of guns to federal prosecutors to win the tougher five- and 10-year minimum sentences in the federal system.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
