If passed, the bill would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
Assume that there'll be a lot more burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
"The requirement for Burglary 1, which would be the highest grade of burglary, would require that a resident perceive that the person was inside of their home," said Contee.
"Burglary 2, which is a lesser degree, does not require that you perceive, that you knew, the person broke into your house. If you are asleep and you don't wake up while the person is in your house, then that's a lower grade, but if you wake up and you happen to see the person is in there, then that's a higher degree of burglary? That just does not make sense to me."
" We should not be looking into the lens where the highest penalty is where a person sustained serious, or significant, bodily injury.
MPD has recorded 326 total carjackings between Jan. 1 and Aug. 30 of this year, representing a 27% increase compared to the same time period last year, when MPD had recorded 264 carjackings.
Of those carjacking incidents reported as of Aug. 30, 73% have involved guns.
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