ALBANY -- Governor Pataki proposed a pair of modest measures to soften the impact of the Rockefeller drug laws on some non-violent offenders in exchange for ending parole for all first-time felons and arming prosecutors with an array of new powers. The Governor calls it is a fair, balanced approach. But sentencing reform advocates complained his plan does too little to redress "gross injustices" under the state's mandatory drug sentencing structure.
May 03, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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ALBANY — Governor Pataki yesterday proposed a pair of modest measures to soften the impact of the Rockefeller drug laws on some non-violent offenders in exchange for ending parole for all first-time felons and arming prosecutors with an array of new powers.
“We think it is a fair, balanced approach,” the Governor said as he outlined his criminal justice package at a capitol press conference.
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