Crack Cocaine Laws
UNFAIRNESS IN FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING: IS IT TIME TO CRACK …
We also see in terms of the impact of what crack cocaine laws do in terms of law enforcement and the court—as we know, the law has to be fair. … View Full Source
Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity FAQ – Phone: 202-216-0035 …
• The crack/powder disparity fuels racial disparities. In 2006, blacks constituted 82% of those sentenced under federal crack cocaine laws while whites constituted only 8.8% despite the fact that more than 66% of people who use crack … Retrieve Content
Proposed Changes To The SC Drug Laws
2) All possession laws regarding crack, powder cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin are to stay the same however, allow for conditional discharge of … Document Viewer
Federal Cocaine Offenses: An Analysis Of Crack And Powder …
107 A recent article in the Los Angeles Times stated that "[djisparities built into the sentencing laws also provide for a 100-to- 1 difference between sentencing ofpowder and crack cocaine offenders." … Fetch Document
F EDERAL C RACK C OCAINE S ENTENCING Overview – Origins Of …
FEDERAL CRACK COCAINE SENTENCING Overview On August Months Crack Cocaine Powder Cocaine SOURCE: U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2009 Sourcebook of federal Sentencing Statistics and Prison Impact Model, FY2009 datafile Drug Quantities and Crack Cocaine Penalties The federal sentencing laws Congress … Fetch Content
Crack laws Press Harder On
According to federal sentencing laws, one gram of crack equals 100 grams of powdered cocaine. That means a person caught with five grams of crack — the equivalent of about one sugar packet — is subject to the same mandatory prison … Doc Retrieval
Cocaine & Federal Sentencing Policy
Nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists. Clearly the 100:1 powder/crack cocaine ratio would qualify as such a law. … Doc Retrieval
EINARMAN EVINE Crack In The Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing …
With this form of cocaine use, showing up in hospital emergency rooms and police stations. Congress passed new laws to extend the length of criminal sentences for crack offenses. … Get Doc
Testimony Of Lanny A
cocaine, a consensus has developed that the federal cocaine sentencing laws should be reassessed. Indeed, over the past 15 years, our understanding of crack and powder cocaine, their effects on the community, and the public safety imperatives surrounding all … Access Document
Federal Cocaine Sentencing In Transition
100-to-1 crack cocaine to powder cocaine quantity ratio is a primary cause of the growing disparity ify the proper relationship between its mandatory minimum laws and sentencing for quantities of cocaine above and below those levels. … Content Retrieval
Cracks In The System: Twenty Years Of The Unjust Federal …
In 2003, whites constituted 7.8% and African Americans constituted more than 80% of the defendants sentenced under the harsh federal crack cocaine laws, despite the fact that more than 66% of crack cocaine users in the United States are white or Hispanic. … Document Retrieval
UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION ONE COLUMBUS CIRCLE, N.E …
For crack cocaine offenses prior to fiscal year 1992 because of the relatively low percentage of crack cocaine cases, vis-a-vis powder cocaine cases, occurring in fiscal year 1992 compared to later fiscal years. … Document Viewer
Cracks In The System
Remains the harshest in the nation, at least 16 states also have laws that create a disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentences.78 … Retrieve Here
Racial Impact Statements As A Means Of Reducing Unwarranted …
In the case of crack cocaine laws, the impact of a policy change on racial disparities would have been very substantial. A recent assessment of potential … Retrieve Full Source
Written Statement Of Carmen D. Hernandez On Behalf Of The …
Year, at least 5,000 more offenders are sentenced under the disproportionately severe crack cocaine laws. The failure to correct this grave injustice means that the crack/powder sentencing … Fetch Full Source
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MAKING FEDERAL CRACK REFORMS …
Is not retroactive, which means that changes to the mandatory minimum sentences do not benefit anyone who has already committed a federal crack cocaine A: No. Laws like S. 1789 that reduce mandatory minimum sentences and do not say anything about retroactivity are not automatically retroactive. … Access Doc
COMMENT Cocaine Base: Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
crack. 13 The circuit split over the interpretation of cocaine base in § 841 has led to a nonuniform application of this drug penalty statute. 14 Since the 1980s, Congress has passed laws aimed at achieving … Return Doc
Objective: To Better Understand How Courts Make Decisions …
The Minnesota Supreme Court held that the statute that prescribed different penalties for possession of similar amounts of crack cocaine and powder One of the inherent rights secured to a free people by Section 2 is the inherent right to “equal and impartial laws which govern the whole … Doc Viewer
ESSAY
Racism Inherent in our Crack Cocaine Laws?, 45 WASH. U. J. URB. & CONTEMP. L. 121, 121–26 (1994); Andrew N. Sacher, Inequities of the Drug War: Legislative Discrimination … Retrieve Doc