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New Crime Code Aids Habitual Offender Law Revision
State Spotlights examine why the Barry Walker Act from 1952 is rarely used and what could replace it. Justice Henry X. O'Brien, who helped draft the Barr-Walker Act, says the law would have been effective if fully implemented and recognizes its flaws as a tool against habitual sex criminals.
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Pennsylvania
Barry Walker
Alvin Rosensweet
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh
State Supreme Court
Henry X. O’brien
Barr-Walker
O’brien
Kenneth Taylor
State Bureau of Corrections
Taylor
Henry Allenbogen
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court