Thank you very much, Mr. Preski.
Is there a separate offense for jumping bail?
When I got to the Senate, I introduced legislation which became the Armed Career Criminal bill, that anybody convicted of three or more offe...
How has the Armed Career Criminal bill worked, in your experience, in sending those cases to Federal court?
I think a hybrid of appointment and direct election, I think, would be helpful in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Would there be any utility in having a separate offense or indicting for a separate criminal charge?
There was an effort made in the Constitutional Convention of 1969 to change the election of judges.
Because the appellate courts have upheld it. There is a constitutional right to a jury trial, so we can't change it by legislation.
Well, I believe that for the most part the sentencing is not the issue when it comes to our fugitive problem.
But we ought to explore ways of implementing trial by absentia, which would put people on notice that they can't game the system and have wi...
In Philadelphia, the defendants know that there is no certainty.