Only Halyna Hutchins sentenced to life here – and a short one it was thanks to Baldwin.
Meanwhile, if you get caught with an unregistered pistol brace, you can go to federal prison for 10 years.
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By “you” you mean middle class, blue collar, Wife 2.5 kids 1.2 dogs a pick up truck and a Camaro. If you happen to be on the movies (Alex Baldwin), married to a University Football coach (Jennifer Shah) you get a completely different “Justice”.
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Yep, that’s the you.
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Alec’s years of trashing the 45th President is now paying dividends.
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Did anyone really expect anything different?
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Blind lady liberty is peaking.
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If it was anyone else but an actor like him, we’d get the full penalty.
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I have mixed feelings about firearm enhancements. Is someone who harms or murders someone with a gun more of a criminal than someone who harms or murders someone with a knife or a hammer? No one wants criminals using firearms but criminals don’t follow laws anyways no matter how many new ones you tack on.
And as @Alces_Americanus points out how is having the suddenly redefined wrong shaped piece of plastic on the end of your firearm worth almost 10 times more jail time than manslaughter??? These laws all seem far more targeted at preventing law abiding citizens from defending themselves than at getting actual violent criminals off the streets.
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In the version of the story I read, the DA explained that the enhancement was already being challenged, and they feared it would take years to resolve this one question. In the meantime, the real trial would be delayed indefinitely, and the county would be wasting money trying to out-lawyer Baldwin’s attorneys. The decision to drop the enhancement charge probably makes sense, from that perspective.
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We’re here from government to help…
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It doesn’t appear that the N.M. District Attorney is the sharpest pencil in the box. The D.A. and her team will be lucky to get any conviction, beyond a slap on the wrist. She will tout any outcome as justice served and her voters will be satisfied.
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Well she is a democrat 
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In this case the enhancement is unconstitutional as it was not in effect at the time of the crime. Laws cannot be predated. That said we will have to wait & see.
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scariest sentence we have
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Nothing will let the guilty go free faster than a crappy, lefty prosecutor.
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