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The Los Angeles Times goes with a Syracuse University study showing that federal prosecutions of gun cases have recently dropped by a third and that convicted criminals are serving less jail time.
Fourth, although the bombing heightened awareness of a new terrorist danger, successful prosecutions contributed to widespread underestimation of the threat.
Yet criminal investigations or prosecutions are rare (and usually involve violations of the fund-raising limits rather than any quid pro quo).
On the subject of the military's adultery policy, the NYT says that a Pentagon committee has proposed changes to the military's Manual for Courts Martial that "would result in fewer prosecutions and impose a less-serious discharge upon convictions."
Military officials have proposed to relax their policies against adultery . The proposed changes, prompted by embarrassment over the Kelly Flinn affair and other recent adultery scandals, would reduce the number of prosecutions (by prosecuting only those cases in which the adultery has demonstrably damaged troop morale) and the severity of the discharge imposed on violators.