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Tom Marino: “I still have an issue with an agency--and, thinking as a prosecutor, as we do, that discretion or that authority is very…”

On the recordApril 27, 2016
I still have an issue with an agency--and, thinking as a prosecutor, as we do, that discretion or that authority is very powerful and good in 99.9 percent of the cases.
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Tom Marino
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Marino discusses the importance of discretion in prosecutorial authority.

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