Crack Cocaine Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE V. ) C RIMINAL …
Amount of crack cocaine necessary to trigger the ten-year mandatory minimum from 50 grams to 280 grams and the amount of crack cocaine necessary to trigger the five-year mandatory minimum from 5 grams to 28 grams. 3 Under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Douglas would be subject to a mandatory … Get Document

WHY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS WRONG ABOUT COCAINE SENTENCING
crack cocaine. The same 100 to 1 ratio appears in statutory provisions governing higher quantities of drugs (e.g., 10 year mandatory minimum triggered by 50 grams of crack and 5 kilograms of powder) and in the federal sentencing guidelines as well. … Fetch Document

New Congress To Examine Minimum Mandates; Crack Requirements …
Offenders are punished under mandatory minimum laws. An early target will be the prison terms mandated by Congress for crack–cocaine convictions. Julie Stewart, founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, says lawmakers should look at the crack–cocaine sentencing and … View This Document

Mandatory Minimum Sentences In General
Differential, but we also strongly oppose the mandatory minimum sentences that are imposed for all cocaine offenses. The ABA believes that, if the differential penalty structure is modified so that crack and powder offenses are dealt with in a similar manner, the resulting sentencing … Document Retrieval

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing. In 1986 Congress enacted mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which force judges to deliver fixed mandatory sentences to target "king pins" and managers in drug distribution networks, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reports that only 5.5 percent of all federal crack cocaine … Fetch Content

STUDY EXAMINES SUPPORT FOR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES FOR …
sentencing by type of cocaine have lead to disparities in sentencing for drug offenses because Blacks tend to use crack cocaine while Whites tend to use powder cocaine. … Return Doc

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Threshold quantities of crack cocaine required to trigger mandatory minimum sentences (and . higher maximum sentences) where those quantities are readily provable. 1 Sentencing Hearings The advisory guidelines of course remain in effect, and courts must continue to calculate … Document Viewer

URGENT ACTION ALERT
Currently, as a result of 1986 federal law, there is a huge (100 to 1) sentencing disparity between the penalty for possession of crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Specifically, a person must possess 500 grams of powder cocaine before they are subject to the same mandatory minimum prison sentence (5 … Read Here

Cracks In The System: Twenty Years Of The Unjust Federal …
In 1986, before the enactment of federal mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine offenses, the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 11% higher than for whites. … Access Full Source

By AlAn VinegrAd And DouglAs Bloom The Presidential …
Was no doubt referring to the swath of new mandatory minimum sentencing statutes enacted in the 1980s. By 1991 there were 100 federal statutes mandating minimum sentences, 44 of which, primarily targeting drug and weapons offenses, were enacted in merits of the 100:1 crack/powder cocaine sentencing … Return Document

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, Drug Purity And Overdose Rates
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING, DRUG PURITY & OVERDOSE RATES433 Table 1: Federal Mandatory Drug Sentences for First-time Offenders Type of Drug Sentence for Sentence for First Offence Second Offence Powder Cocaine 500 grams 5 years 10 years 5 kilos 10 years 20 years Crack Cocaine 5 grams 5 years 10 … Fetch This Document

CRACK COCAINE REFORM
Nkechi Taifa is again in the forefront of crack reform sentencing advocacy. She led the successful effort for an historic hearing on mandatory minimum sentences, focused on the crack cocaine disparity, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. … Fetch This Document

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For crack and powder cocaine trafficking.1 In doing so, Congress established the five- and ten-year mandatory minimum sentencing regime still in effect today. … Fetch Doc

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(discussing the media coverage of the crack cocaine phenomenon). 17. See Hearing on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws, supra note 8, at 171. … Visit Document

UNFAIRNESS IN FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING: IS IT TIME TO CRACK …
Base, i.e., crack cocaine, required for the imposition of a mandatory minimum prison sentence for crack cocaine trafficking to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. … Read Content

THE COST OF INCARCERATION ? 10-22-2009
At age 21, Florida native Vikki Hankins, a first-time offender, was sentenced to 23 years to life in jail for selling crack cocaine. Hankins was one of the "small fry’’ trapped by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 during America’s so -called "War On Drugs." The law created mandatory minimum … Access This Document

APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT JULY 6, 2011 JOHN LEY CLERK FILED U …
The district court sentenced Vera Rojas in September 2010 for conspiring with intent to distribute 71.8 grams of crack cocaine, among other offenses. If the court had sentenced Vera Rojas under the FSA, her offenses would have been insufficient to trigger the ten-year mandatory minimum sentencing … Read Document

The Crack Controversy – A Rapid Panic Was Sweeping The …
Or more of powder cocaine or simply 5 grams of crack cocaine. The ten-year mandatory minimum sentence was applied for possessing 5,000 or more grams of powder cocaine and simply 50 grams of crack cocaine (United States Sentencing … Read Document