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One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

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Roy Barnes
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 11
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Mableton
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Roy Eugene Barnes
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a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.
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