The flat tax has the simplistic appeal of other popular proposals to reform the governmental process, such as a constitutional amendment to balance the budget or mandatory term limits.
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He argued that his parole term was illegal because it exceeded his four-year prison term, but the Court of Appeals ruled in 1999 that the five-year mandatory term was legal.
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His plan would allow for shorter mandatory terms for drug offenders serving some of the longest sentences, treatment instead of incarceration in some cases, and some sentencing discretion for judges.
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Among drug offenders sentenced to long, mandatory terms in Massachusetts state prisons, nearly half have no record of violent crime, according to a study of the state's prison population released Monday.
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The Court of Appeals ruled in 1999 that the five-year mandatory term was legal, but the high court said that Martin's parole term wrongly exceeded the limits established under state law.
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That is why they are phrased in the descriptive terms of a judge announcing the law to be applied in a given case rather than in the mandatory terms of a statute.
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Laws were instituted that required every able-bodied male Japanese citizen, regardless of class, to serve a mandatory term of three years with the first reserves and two additional years with the second reserves.
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The court, improperly in his view, stopped examining the weight of the interest involved, and instead focused on whether the state had issued a regulation phrased in mandatory terms, no matter what the subject.
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In fact, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Thomas O'Toole did characterize the mandatory term he handed to Dr . Pearce as " disproportionate " to the crime : Five years is a long time in prison.
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The fact is, many of these public-opinion polls that suggest overwhelming support for mandatory term limits also show that most voters like the idea of electing their own representatives as many times as they see fit.
