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Appellate Practice

Sep. 11, 1998

Federal Judges Decry 'Overlong' Sentencing Rules

SAN FRANCISCO - While reluctantly approving 95-year and 50-year prison terms imposed on two Fresno State football scholarship students convicted of armed robbery, a pair of conservative federal appellate judges on Wednesday used the opportunity to implore Congress to repeal mandatory minimum sentences.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - While reluctantly approving 95-year and 50-year prison terms imposed on two Fresno State football scholarship students convicted of armed robbery, a pair of conservative federal appellate judges on Wednesday used the opportunity to implore Congress to repeal mandatory minimum sentenc...

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