SRS, somewhere back up there, told us:

It means that because these laws are poorly crafted and tie the hands of judges regarding things like "three strikes," a lot of people who have minor infractions end up with life sentences without parole. So the judges who made this idiotic decision have done an injustice to their colleagues in the field, to say nothing of the victims of this worm they released.

There is in the law a maxim that "Bad law makes hard cases, and hard cases make bad law."

Dave Oesterreich