In my view, the battle over federal sentencing "reform" for this session of Congress has ended in victory for those of us wanting to preserve the gains the county has made in suppressing crime.
But since almost nothing gets permanently settled in this town, my adversaries will be back. One of the best of them is Mark Holden, General Counsel of Koch Industries. His op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune (lauding, among others, Sen. Mike Lee) is here.
My response was printed last Friday in the Deseret News, and can be found here.
Mark and I have more areas of agreement than disagreement, however, and I look forward to working with him and Koch Industries for significant mens rea reform, to insure that ordinary businessmen and landowners do not get sent to prison for behavior a normal person would not know is wrong, much less criminal.
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