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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last time he was on the Politics Hour, he smugly claimed that carjackings are just "armed robberies" when defending his re-write of the DC code which eliminates the term "carjacking" and classifies it armed robbery. This also reduces the punishment by half. https://wamu.org/story/22/03/11/the-politics-hour-march-11-2022/ Listen at 19:00 [/quote] Carjackings are, by definition, armed robbery. And, a substantial number of states categorize them that way in their criminal code. It has nothing to do with the severity of punishment. It is about modernizing a century-old criminal code and outlining the characteristics of a carjacking offense in statute versus the current system based on prior case law and precedent. As noted above, the statutory max under the revised criminal code is longer than 95+ percent of current sentences for carjacking. It does not reduce the punishment by half or anything close to that.[/quote]
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