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There is no need to tiptoe gingerly around this topic: Maurice Clemmons, who was shot and killed as authorities tried to apprehend him for the shooting deaths of four Washington police officers -- is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton.
Horton, you might recall, is the convicted killer who raped a woman while wrongly released as part of a prison furlough program supported by former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis -- thus helping to torpedo the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee's bid for the White House. The Clemmons story likewise should kill any chance of Huckabee winning, should he run in...
Huckabee Handed Out Pardons Like Candy
That's the problem when there is no "truth in sentencing". So we get hung up on the idea that some kid got a "life" sentence for something less than murder.
So the numbers 108 and 43 have no absolute effect except on newspaper headlines. I suspect that the AR jury knew 108 would keep him in "long enough", but I guess we'll never know.