CAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROCEDURES OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 28 and S. 3216 PART II CAREER CRIMINALS SEPTEMBER 27, 1978 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts STROM THURMOND, South Carolina MARK H. GITENSTEIN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director CONTENTS = held on: I.—Restructuring the Law Enforcement Assistance AdministraOn August 16, 1978 ust 23, 1978 Part II.-Coreer Criminals cember 27, 1978. 3.. 216... at of: nes, J. Robert, Assistant Administrator, Law Enforcement ssistance Administration_... , Harl, district attorney for Multnomah County, Portland, Oreg- y, James F., prosecuting attorney, Marion, Ind.... rt, Earl J., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. er, Andrew L., State's attorney, Montgomery County, Rockville, e, Carol S., district attorney, Harris County, Houston, Tex---, Charles R., attorney, Washington, D.C... t submitted for the record by trong, David L., Commonwealth's attorney, letter of October r criminal program in Maryland__ 80 er Criminal Prosecution: An Idea Whose Time has Come," n Petersilia.. 163 s of certain defendants compiled by the U.S. Attorney's Office the District of Columbia__ 38 inal Careers of Habitual Felons," National Institute of Law O Rand Habitual Offender Project: A Summary of Research 244 425 127 217 187 CAREER CRIMINALS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1978 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAWS AND PROCEDURES Washington, D.C. subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:15 a.m., in room Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. man of the subcommittee), presiding. sent: Representative Pattison. I present: Mark Gitenstein, counsel, Subcommittee on Criminal and Procedures, and Richard Velde, chief minority counsel, ittee on the Judiciary. tor BIDEN. The hearing will come to order. ould like to begin this hearing by thanking a significant numimportant witnesses that we have this morning for making lves available. Il warn all of you in the audience that there is more prosecucalent out there than there has been assembled in any one place, areful what you say. You may be in trouble. [Laughter.] are going to proceed in a slightly unorthodox fashion because S. Senate is proceeding in an orthodox fashion. [Laughter.] are in the midst of the remaining 3 weeks of a Senate session. e a few minor pieces of legislation that are of little consequence e extension of ERA, natural gas, busing, HEW, and a whole of issues that are pulling my colleagues hither and yon in concommittees and actions on the floor which are brought without l notice. vith the permission of our first panel, I will suggest that we oceed in the following way. I will make an opening statement will be relatively brief. Then we are going to proceed with our uished panel, but I would like to warn them that we may be pted if my colleagues Senator Bentsen, Senator Mathias, or entative Pattison show up. The reason I do that is not to extend rmal senatorial courtesies" but because they are in conference tees in other parts of the Capitol and are subject to being away at a moment's notice. They may not even make it this g and I wanted to alert you to that ahead of time and beg your nce. the first panel, we will proceed with Mr. Grimes, assistant adator of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and then I go on to the next panel from the National District Attorneys tion. I realize that the District Attorneys panel has schedules |