Legislation aimed at reforming Delaware’s habitual-offender law had its first hearing in a Senate committee last week, as lawmakers and advocates for criminal justice reform expressed a need to revisit certain provisions and hammer out disagreements among the bill’s drafters.
The bill, which is sponsored by Sen. Karen Peterson, D-Stanton, would eliminate mandatory life sentences for three-time violent felons, and instead impose a minimum sentence of the stiffest statutory penalty for the specific crime.
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