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So if they're unconscious for some other reason - or the assailant wasn't the one who drugged them - it's not a felony?

Sometimes I'm still surprised at how politicians can defend certain positions.





It's still a felony, just not classified as a "violent" one for the purposes of strikes/early release.

> Sometimes I'm still surprised at how politicians can defend certain positions.

Well, the people who opposed it were widely decried as racist.

It's pretty easy to push things past the public when the press is complicit and the opposition is tarred and feathered as evil oppressors.




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