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On the recordApril 7, 2014
But why not just exercise your prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the case period?
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Trey Gowdy
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Gowdy questions the Attorney General's discretion in prosecuting low-level drug cases.

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