SENTENCING BASED ON PROSECUTOR ALLEGATIONS

This letter is in response to the Aug. 7 article by Leonardo M.
Rapadas, U.S. Attorney for the districts of Guam and the Northern Marianas.

The federal laws regarding mandatory minimum are flawed because they
allow sentencing that is based upon prosecutorial allegations made
after the trial. These allegations can be as far from the truth as the
prosecutor wishes. No prosecutor has been indicted for lies or hiding
exculpatory evidence or for solicitation of perjury or for paying witnesses.

Federal prosecutors are the real criminals and are terrorists in their
attack on what the Constitution calls a fair trial. There are no fair
trials in federal courts.

Colin Bayliss

Dover, Ohio