Frazier: Sex crime was ‘heinous’ but prosecutors bound by laws

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Frazier: Sex crime was ‘heinous’ but prosecutors bound by laws

PUBLIC Prosecutions Director Cordell Frazier defended her department’s sentencing recommendation in a controversial child molestation case, stressing that prosecutors are bound by the law and legal principles, which require them to consider sentencing guidelines, a mandatory one-third reduction for early guilty pleas, and a defendant’s lack of prior convictions when making recommendations to the court.