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To: TimF who wrote (157983)	1/13/2003 7:55:54 PM
From: i-node	of 1580033

Re: Pickering If you watch Brit Hume's show rerun tonight, he interviews a reporter who has thoroughly researched the cross-burning case and explains fully what happened. It was clear, to me at least, that Pickering acted properly with respect to the matter. The essence of the problem was that the 17-year old who was clearly the "leader" of the group walked on the charge, and Pickering believed that sentencing a man to 7 years for cross burning when he was a first-time offender, had no history of hate speech or hate crimes, and basically was just going along with the other kid was inappropriate. In particular, the 17-year old who walked on a plea had several previous violations, including firing a weapon into the home involved. First you have to get past the notion that 7 years is an appropriate sentence for burning a cross in someone's yard (this is a longer term then that served by the man who killed my brother). But it was clear that Pickering was merely trying to make the sentence comport with those received by the other participants. This guy was Borked, and Bush is trying to right that wrong. I certainly hope he succeeds.

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