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What's Wrong With This Picture?
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1990, page 7
The Washington State Court of Appeals recently handed down a ruling that demonstrates how "equal justice" really works. In State v. Allert, 58 Wn.App. 200 (1990), the court upheld an exceptional sentence below the applicable guideline range for Terry Allert. Mr. Alert, the former police chief of Ritzville, Washington, robbed …
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