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Fast and Furious sentencings

Two get 3.5 years and 9 years: a third faces a max of life imprisonment.

What's sometimes frustrating is that the Feds will charge first, either for good reasons or for publicity, and then the State will ignore things, figuring someone else is taking care of them. Here, the Feds could charge conspiracy and dealing without a license. The State could have charged felony murder (meaning the death penalty, or "natural life" -- no release ever -- or ordinary life -- no parole for 25 years). It could have thrown on armed robbery, which I think has a presumptive sentence of 7.5 years, then aggravated it for use a firearm and a few other things, and probably doubled that.

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