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Unintentionally fired a shot hitting one person in the leg. the victim s attorney said the bullet hit a main artery and the guy could have bled to death. a judge rather sentenced bishop to two years of probation. arthel: amid a divided congress, president trump signed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill this week. the president senior advisor jared kushner earning high praise for getting the bill to the president s desk. it will allow up to 4,000 prisoners to be released for good behavior. more inhates will receive house arrest more inmates will receive house arrest or be sent to halfway homes. it lessens mandatory penalties for second and third convictions and allows judges more sentencing discretion for low level criminals. joining me now is fox news legal analyst and defense attorney and member of the republican lawyers association. we will talk about the political implications later. let s talk about the upside to this law. mercedes? i think it is great. ....
Disparity of powdered crack and other drugs? will it affect this law? yes, many of the people who are in prison now, they would be sentenced to much shorter terms than someone who is sentenced now. so if you look at that, they will see people who enter after they entered and they are leaving before they are eligible to leave. so people who are serving the sentences long repudiated whether by congress or by federal law, or by the department of justice which is choosing also to change its charging practices in recognition of the fact that charges often lead to unduly sentences for the nonviolent drug offenders. and work is under way to lead to that change, and congress is discussing bipartisan legislation to cut the minimum sentences by half, and give the judges more sentencing discretion, and retroactively apply new standard s s to those ....