Crack Cocaine Disparity Bill 2010
March 9, 2010 433 Senate Russell Building
Strong support for this bill. It represents long-overdue and urgently needed reform. Introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), S. 1789 would eliminate the cocaine sentencing disparity and eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine 3/9/2010 9:59:44 AM … View Document
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disparity between crack and powder cocaine, and instead it causes an unjustified racial See Carrie Johnson, Bill Targets Sentencing Rules for Crack and Powder Cocaine, WASH. 2010] REFORMING COCAINE SENTENCING POLICY 2571 1. Crack Cocaine Is Not More Addictive than Powder Cocaine … Get Doc
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Crimes, including the especially harsh 100-to-1 crack-powder disparity. Five grams of crack and 500 grams of powder cocaine now 2010.aspx), which would create an 18-to-1 ratio between crack and powder cocaine. Under the bill, 28 grams of crack and 500 grams of powder cocaine trigger the 5-year … Content Retrieval
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT OF 2010 …
FEDERAL CRACK REFORM BILL Q-1: Has Congress passed crack cocaine reform legislation? A: Yes. On March 17, 2010, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing eliminate the sentencing disparity, the 18-to-1 ratio was a bipartisan compromise. … View Document
URGENT ACTION ALERT
Urgent action alert date: july 28, 2010 to: concerned parties from: hilary o. shelton, director, washington bureau u.s. house poised to consider naacp-supported legislation reducing racial discrimination in crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing disparity today crucial bill begins reducing … View Document
By Laurence M. Vance
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 established, among other punishments for drug "crimes," a disparity of 100:1 between federal penalties for crack cocaine and powder the U.S. Senate on March 17, 2010, by unanimous consent, and by the House of Representatives on July 27, 2010, by voice vote. The bill … Read Full Source
NAACP-SUPPORTED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE CRACK COCAINE / POWDER …
Issue update date: july 29, 2010 to: concerned parties from: hilary o. shelton, director, washington bureau naacp-supported legislation to reduce crack cocaine / powder cocaine sentencing disparities passes u.s. house and senate crucial bill reducing sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1 is … Read Content
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One of the sad ironies in this entire episode is that a bill which was characterized by some as a response to the crack tainted by the extreme racial disparity of the prior crack–cocaine sentencing regime without a . 2 156 Cong. Rec. H6202 (daily ed. July 28, 2010) (statement of Rep. Lungren). 3 … Read Content
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT OF 2010 …
1 8/28/10 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT OF 2010, S. 1789 FEDERAL CRACK REFORM BILL Q-1: Has Congress passed crack cocaine reform legislation? A: Yes. On March 17, 2010, the U.S While the 18-to-1 ratio in S. 1789 does not eliminate the sentencing disparity, the 18-to-1 ratio was … Access This Document
FILED U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT MAY 19, 2010 …
MAY 19, 2010 JOHN LEY CLERK [DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED the bill would pass and, until the bill passed, “the law is what the law is.” The court noted that if it continued all the crack cocaine cases with eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, or … Read Document
Federal Cocaine Sentencing Disparity: Sentencing Guidelines …
Although the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 revises these penalties (as discussed below), there still remains a disparity in the threshold amount of powder cocaine and crack cocaine that triggers the year mandatory minimum for simple possession of crack cocaine. 160 The bill goes beyond crack cocaine … Return Doc
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crack cocaine would trigger the five-year mandatory sentence, and 280 grams of crack would trigger ten years. This bill, The Fair Sentencing Act, passed via unanimous consent and was signed into law on August 3, 2010.9 While the legislation did not completely eliminate the 100-to-1 disparity, there … Retrieve Doc
F EDERAL C RACK C OCAINE S ENTENCING Overview – Origins Of …
FEDERAL CRACK COCAINE SENTENCING Overview On August 3, 2010 President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act minimum for simple possession of crack cocaine. The bill passed unanimously through disparity between crack and powder cocaine be reduced, this time providing Congress a range of … Read More
The Many (Opaque) Echoes Of Compromise Crack Sentencing Reform
Tory sentencing provisions for federal crack cocaine offenses by passing the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) of 2010. 1789, which called for a reduction (but not an elimination) of the sentencing disparity between federal crack and powder cocaine offenses. This bill … Document Retrieval
Worth Fighting For: Keeping The Promise Of Sentencing Reform
Reduced the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences. His Department of Justice also issued the S. 714, 111th cong. (2009). the companion bill in the House of representatives is H.r. 5143, 111th cong. (2010). … Read Content