Senator Simons: As I have said, I would trust that the responsible members of the judiciary would not give out conditional sentences like Halloween candy. Those would be reserved for the very specific fact-based cases where they were appropriate. In no way would I suggest that somebody who breaks into a house and is in the house unlawfully to menace the residents of the house should be treated in the same way as somebody who gets lost in the woods in the winter and breaks into a cabin to not freeze to death.

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