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10-20-Life

10-20-Life proper noun: florida Statute 775.087.

10-20-life: florida Statute 775.087
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Proper noun

10-20-Life

  1. (US) Florida Statute 775.087
    • For example, when I asked the lobbyist for the Florida Sheriffs Association about the FSA's rationale for supporting 10-20-life, he responded that offenders were "getting too much gain-time and ... it just wasn't right."2018 February 19, Heather Schoenfeld, Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (Chicago Series in Law and Society), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...

Origin of 10-20-Life

From the facts that, under this statute, (during the commission of certain felonies): * Producing a firearm carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence; * Firing a firearm carries a mandatory 20-year prison sentence; * Hitting someone with a firearm carries a mandatory 25-year to life prison sentence.

Questions about 10-20-Life

What does 10-20-Life mean?
10-20-Life means florida Statute 775.087.
What part of speech is 10-20-Life?
10-20-Life is a proper noun.

Words near 10-20-Life in the dictionary

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  2. 10 points to Gryffindor
  3. 10's
  4. 10-
  5. 10-20
  6. 10-20-Life
  7. 10-20s
  8. 10-4
  9. 10-bagger
  10. 10-baggers
  11. 10-day measles

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