Jordan Williams Arizona Sonora News//February 5, 2019//

(AP Photo/Matt York) A Republican-sponsored bill would allow judges to depart from mandatory sentences for certain crimes. Under House Bill 2245, the “Arizona Judicial Discretion Act,”...

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