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So far no bills
are dead
To the Editor:
While no freshman state senator can possibly expect to bat a thousand percent in his first year with his legislation, so far your senator has yet to see one of his bills killed.
I purposefully cast aside the admonition that freshmen legislators are to be seen but not heard. The people of the 25th Senatorial District deserve a senator who will speak his mind and vote his convictions from Day One. You have one.
My “Courtroom Protection Act of 1992” would make the premeditated murder of a judge, juror or other court official a capital offense. It cleared sub-committee but was amended in full committee to include all willful, premeditated murder.
This far-reaching approach to deterring murder will go back to the ftill committee and, hopefully, be debated and acted upon on the floor of the Senate. I will keep you posted.
I am also pleased that senior members of the Senate have called on me to lend my expertise on how to curb the escalating costs of housing criminals in our prisons. I am an advocate of high-tech, electronically monitored at-home incarceration for non-violent offenders. r
Believe me, the frustration of being confined at home is a severe punishment. Also, criminals, when separated, are less able to “share" their skills with one another. Furthermore, it costs over $21,000 to house a criminal in prison, but less than $5,000 to keep them confined at home. I will be offering this testimony to the Senate Finance Committee shortly.
In contrast, to my disappointment I have found the “expert” testimony of Wilder Administration officials to be less than frill, complete, candid or even accurate. The skills of interrogation I honed in the FBI have been put to good use in
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