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be required in the event your amendment is approved.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Moser.

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DELEGATE MOSER: I would not think that it is

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required. If you feel that it is I am sure the committee that

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is considering it would take it under advisement.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Does anyone wish to speak

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against the amendment?

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For what purpose does Delegate Mpser rise?

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DELEGATE MSER: I would like to correct one

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statement which I made which corrected some misunderstanding.

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When I presented this, I said an injustice occurred

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in a case that I prosecuted, and I don't think it came

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out very well. The facts of the situation were fairly

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complicated. The facts were in dispute, and the law was in

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dispute. It was a murder case.

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The better verdict would have been manslaughter.

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The person was convicted of second degree murder.

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But the situation was remedied by the sentence, so

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it wasn't the difference between acquittal and a conviction,

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however, I think the situation may not have arisen if

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the prosecutor were not expected to argue law, as well as