Conviction would mean a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.

If a firearm was used then the mandatory minimum is 25 years in state prison.

According to data analysis, this has increased by five times since the mandatory minimums and guidelines became federal law.

The crime bill recently passed by the Senate contains more such "mandatory minimums."

Now the Senate has passed a crime bill stuffed with new mandatory minimums.

If he does not file it, then the mandatory minimum will not be applied.

Under Florida law, the prosecutor in a case is the only person eligible to waive any mandatory minimum.

A mandatory minimum of 30 per cent of the senators are women.

But mandatory minimums, he wrote, "can lead to possible injustices."

There is a mandatory minimum 12 month for drink-driving offences.