Judges will campaign on efficiency [and] in order to do that, to say I have the smallest docket of all judges, they force the prosecutors to plead more cases and force the defendants to plead to them, by issuing high bonds and refusing to lower them. That external pressure feeds the lock-them-up system.[229] There is nothing inherently wrong with plea deals as long as the plea process is not coercive.[235] Coercion arises when prosecutors leverage the threat of an egregiously long sentence to induce defendants to plead guilty to a lesser one, or when unreasonably high bail means that the only way to escape lengthy pretrial detention is to plead to probation, time served, or relatively short incarceration
The provision would cap the excise tax on individual cigars at 30 cents and expand the tax to online cigar purchases
The use of drugs (including marijuana), other illegal substances and/or smoking (including vaporizers, e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco) is strictly prohibited," reads the venue's guest code of conduct policy
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20-23 See Section 12.4.3 for more details about these chemicals
Cigarette smoking induces both oxidative stress and anti-oxidant responses in airway epithelium and, with great variability amongst individuals [38]