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Article: SOVIETS PLAN TO REVISE CRIMINAL CODE, END INTERNAL EXILE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 10, 1987
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Byline: Carol J. Williams Associated Press
The government announced Monday that it is rewriting its criminal code to abolish internal exile as punishment, narrow the list of death-penalty offenses and shorten the maximum prison term from 15 to 10 years.
The proposed overhaul of the nation's 30-year-old criminal code by a government review committee was discussed by Justice Minister Boris V. Kravtsov in an interview with the official Tass news agency.
Kravtsov was quoted as saying consideration was also being given to broadening the rights of defense lawyers, presumably to allow them better access to information obtained in criminal ...