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Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH BLASTS TWO BILLS UP FOR FULL HOUSE VOTE TODAY, CALLING THEM 'ANTI-PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 31, 2009
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 30 -- The Rhode Island attorney general issued the following news release:
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today criticized two bills that the House Judiciary Committee approved during the Tuesday night session of the General Assembly, calling them "anti-public safety measures that will have drastic, real-world consequences on real people."
If enacted, one bill would "gut the state's current probation-violation system," he said, and the other would require police to record all confessions by defendants in all capital cases. "This bill will undermine the efforts of police and prosecutors to fight violent crime by impeding our ability to introduce what's often the ...