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Jeanine Pirro: “The sentence was probation. We can't have that.”

Featuring: Jeanine Pirro, Republican | United States Attorney for the District of Columbia | National

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Published | Video Starts at 21:06

But for the grace of God, that individual did not die. Now he's got a gun. It's illegal. He used the gun. Guess what the sentence was. I got a conviction. The sentence was probation. We can't have that. And by the way, he wasn't a kid. He was 19. These are the rules of the D.C. council. They've got to be changed. (21:06–21:10)

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Asserts that a conviction for using a gun resulted in probation, which is unacceptable.

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