How hugely the predetermination of sentences contributed to easing the thorny life of a judge. It wasn’t so much a mental relief, in the sense that one didn’t have to think, as it was a moral relief. You didn’t have to torture yourself with worry that you might make a mistake in a sentence and make orphans out of your own little children.
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