I understand both considerations. I'm not much of a bleeding heart. I'm for putting career violent criminals away forever. If Gilmore is for this, I'll join his campaign staff. But courts screw up.
Juries are human.
It's ugly to watch the courts ruin the innocent. Readers of this column may remember that I have written a time or two about Bruce McLaughlin, convicted of molesting his children in Leesburg. He got thirteen years. In eight years on the police beat, I've never seen a conviction that stank more. It bothered me at the time.