 He persuades Chief Judge Hershey to put his motion to a vote before Mega-City One's ruling body, the Council of Five.While the vote is pending, however, Dredd is still obliged to enforce the very laws he seeks to repeal.When a normal couple discover that their newborn baby is a mutant, they abscond rather than face the Mutant Catchers, who will force them into exile in the Cursed Earth desert.