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FIRST CRACK IN THE SYSTEM

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Sometimes all it takes is one man or woman to stand up and say "no, this is wrong. I won't do it."Judge Thomas Remington of Okaloosa County is apparently that type of man. Presented with a plea deal in which a young woman with no prior record was going to enter a plea requiring him to impose the 25 year minimum mandatory for possession of hyrdocodone, the Judge said "no." The punishment in this case, in his opinion, does not fit the crime.  (For another time- what kind of lawyer pleads his client into a 25 year min man????)Isn't this what we elect and appoint Judges to do? Don't we want the life of an individual in the hands of an experienced and impartial jurist, and not a prosecutor who in all likelihood is younger and less experienced than the Judge? It's time for the legislature to start trusting Judges again...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).