A House committee has voted down four bills proposed by a Baltimore Democrat to set mandatory minimum penalties for certain crimes on buses. Delegate Melvin Stukes says bus violence led to his proposals, but delegates' dislike of mandatory minimums sank his plan.
The bills were a response to a beating last year on a Baltimore bus, where a woman, her boyfriend and the bus driver were attacked. Several teens accused in that case...
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