re: A Downtown business owner says he has had enough.

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Zero tolerance? The same day we learned that a 30 year old man who killed his 79 year old dad, had a prior conviction. He had already been arrested for attempted murder. He pled down to second degree battery got a ten year sentence but had that sentence suspended instead he got three years probation.

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I 5hink one of the biggest problem in Criminal Justice today are these plea deals. The plea deal process needs to be revised so that the original charges are left on the record and able to be used against the criminal if they commit future crimes and be used for determining future parole, probation, commutation.

The reason why is because serious crimes get reduced to much less serious crimes and future actions become based on those much less serious crimes. For instance, a person is charged with drug dealing and weapons charges. The plea deal is down to possession of narcotics, then later they release them early or commute sentences based on the low level charge of possession which does not reflect the seriousness or violent threat the person really is.