Politician: The mandatory jail sentences that became law two years ago for certain crimes have enhanced the integrity of our system of justice, for no longer are there two kinds of justice, the kind dispensed by lenient judges and the kind dispensed by severe ones  Public advocate: But with judges stripped of discretionary powers, there can be no leniency even where it would be appropriate  So juries now sometimes acquit a given defendant solely because the jurors feel that the mandatory sentence would be too harsh  Those juries, then, do not return an accurate verdict on the defendant' s guilt
This is why it is imperative that the legislation instituting mandatory jail sentences be repealed
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