Now. the distinguished Senator from Utah raised a concern about firsttime offenders and offered an amendment to the underlying amendment which we ended up negotiating on to try to deal with the following problem. Last year. 9.220 people in America got minimum mandatory sentencing under the Federal drug statutes. When you take out the people who did not carry a gun. when you take out the people who had not previously committed a crime. when you take out the people who did not have extensive juvenile records for serious crimes. when you take out illegal aliens. when you take out people who were not leaders in the drug conspiracy. when youtake out those cases where people were not hurt. by my figuring you come up. for the people we actually have data for. with about 180 people who got mandatory minimum sentencing who did not fall into any of those categories. These are people who the critics of mandatory sentences argue Just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing. I am not sympathetic to that argument.
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