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Jun. 1, 2007

Letters to the Editor

     TOO MUCH, AND NOT ENOUGH
      I was surprised to see you name Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Warren Kato as one of the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year ["The CLAY Awards," March] for winning a sentence of 1,210 years to life for my appellate client, David Robinson. Rather than a basis for an award, this case is a glaring example of the idiocy of "sentencing inflation" in an age where polit...

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