Blame it on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the 1970 federal racketeering statute that helped jail scores of mobsters. Before RICO, mob trials were an exciting rarity. In the first years of RICO, there were scads of big trials in New York, New England, Philadelphia, K...
Nor does Reynolds trust the prosecutors and criminal justice experts who say there are ways to write a more focused statute that would ensure only violent felons would be locked up for life. Even Jones, the author of the bill, believes it could be made better. In less than a year, Reyno...