Topic Lecture
- Should be a state topic
- 90% incarcerated in state/local prisons
- congress/federal can
- Punishment of counterfeit money
- international crime
- Regulate commerce with foreign nations
- crime > 1 state then federal
- can make any law as long as its neccesary for action
- outdated laws
- Immigration laws are broken most
- mostly overstaying visa's
- Drugs also
- firearm distribution
- Justification for action is essential for Aff
- Enact
- Means a law passed by congress
- SCOTUS > Congress
- Court can regulate state and local policing
- Enact topicality
- outcome will depend on ground
- topic is bidirectional
- minor limiting
- reform
- to change
- reform is the anti-thesis to abolition
- aff != abolish
- good ground
- community norms may allow aff to permute
- process
- investigation, proscecution, and punishment
- demographic statistics show systemic racism
- investigations
- subject to different legal standards e.g. privacy
- reasonable doubt
- lots of literature on ways to reform policing to solve racism
- stop and frisk
- lots of federal agencies
- forensic science falls under investigations
- fingerprint identification, partial DNA matching, handwriting matching
- lots of aff ground, could be reformed and many federal agencies
- challenges
- USFG key warrant might be hard
- literature evolving
- Abolistion K may be too good because of scope and severity
- prosecution
- most cases skip this step
- 90% plea guilty
- limits on investigation are enforced
- 3 strike law doesn't work and increases crime
- trump is trying to abolish
- judges give sentencing.
- advisory range by us sentencing manual
- may depart from manual, onlly in specific cases
- downward and upward departure (upward is less likely)
- 18 USC 3553
- nature and circumstances of the offence + history and characteristics
- restitution to victims
- if continued crimes and pertinence and past sentences
- can be for physical possestions
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- lots of reform for mandatory minimums
- most problematic parts are state/local
- punishment
- can be more than prison time
- sex offender list
- job notices
- why?
- Reflect the seriousness of the offence
- big disparaties in same crimes same cities
- lots of leeway
- deterrence doesn't work
- incarceration rose after crime fell
- chance of going to jail increases after jail
- prison isn't doing what its meant to do
- private systems main source of revenue is gov contracts
- Sentences are especially disproportionate in race
- life, genera, life w/out parole etc
- So many extreme problems, affirmative ground is ample
- major limitations are is mechanisms can solve harms, and whether reform is > abolition
- possible affs