mandatory minimum sentences

Federal Crack Cocaine Guidelines

...  for Crack Cocaine Possession May Apply Retroactively, July 2011 Gary Fields, in his Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011 article, notes that 12,040 inmates may soon be eligible to petition the federal courts, on a case-by-case basis, for reduction… Continue reading

Federal Guidelines Crack Cocaine

...  federal courts, on a case-by-case basis, for reduction in their sentences. … Fetch Document MemoPage 1 of 5 Memo Re: New Amendments to the Crack Cocaine Guidelines From: Jason Haw kins, Supervisor, Appellate Section Federal Public Defenders Office for… Continue reading

Aclu Releases Crack Cocaine Report

...  adult pornography is ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), the Court invalidated the Communications Decency Act, a law intended to Defendant] would often play pornographic tapes and show them adult magazines while he smoked crack … Get Document INTERNET RESOURCESHuman… Continue reading

Crack Cocaine Laws New York

...  Here CRACKED JUSTICE—ADDRESSING THE UNFAIRNESS IN COCAINE SENTENCINGJERROLD NADLER, New York ROBERT C. ‘‘BOBBY’’ SCOTT, Virginia problems in the current cocaine sentencing laws. First, it eliminates the legal distinction between crack and pow-der cocaine, treating them as The sudden… Continue reading

Mandatory Minimum Sentences Crack Cocaine

February 26, 2008 – E- MAIL: WASHINGTONBUREAU@NAA CPNET.ORG …Despite the fact that cocaine use is roughly equal among the different populations of our nation, the vast majority of offenders who are tried, convicted and sentenced under federal crack cocaine mandatory… Continue reading

Obama Crack Cocaine Sentences

...  of Blacks at six-times the rates of whites and to America's crown as the world's leader in incarcerations. The Obama administration rightly wanted to end the racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for … View Document Advancing A New… Continue reading