Larry Brock at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

Thank you, Ms. Morency. I want to move on now.

I want to address the whole concept of still maintaining the 14 mandatory minimums but putting into place a constitutional exemption that would give the flexibility to judges across this country to exempt the outliers for whom the mandatory minimums would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Did the departments consider this, and, if so, why has it been rejected in the form of the draft bill?