Mandatory sentencing laws restrict judicial discretion in sentencing, ensuring that criminal sentences imposed in the courts reflect the punishments intended by the lawmakers who enacted the law. In this way, mandatory laws may reduce sentencing disparity. Mandatory sentencing ...

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