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Friday, June 16, 2006

UK Lord Chancellor says system to blame for sentencing, not judges / Jurist PaperChase Newsburst, 15 June 2006

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Joshua Pantesco
"Responding to public outrage in the UK over the possibility of parole within six years for a sex offender convicted earlier this week, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer [official profile] said on BBC TV program Question Time [recorded video] that judges are not to be blamed over the sentencing issue. Lord Falconer said "the problem is with the sentencing framework," and suggested that UK Home Secretary John Reid [official profile] should refrain making the sentencing debate a political issue by pushing Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to appeal [JURIST report] to the Court of Appeal the life sentence received by Craig Sweeney [Sky News report]. Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier said it was proper for Reid to publicly demand that Goldsmith appeal the sentence because it offended the public's sense of right and wrong. "

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