I think it is important to have discretion and to trust the judge to exercise that discretion within certain limits.
Dick Durbin: “I think it is important to have discretion and to trust the judge to exercise that discretion within certain limits.”
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Durbin emphasizes the importance of judicial discretion in sentencing.
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