Obama Crack Cocaine Use
By Coletta A. YoungerS| Washington Office On Latin America …
On the campaign trail, Obama promised to undertake three initiatives related to drug policy: seek to remove the disparity in federal sentencing for crack and powder cocaine; reverse the federal … Doc Viewer
APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT JUNE 24, 2011 JOHN LEY CLERK FILED U …
Her sentencing was scheduled for August 3, 2010, which as it so happened, was the date on which President Obama signed the FSA into law. The FSA sought to reduce the disparity between federal criminal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses by lowering the gram-penalty ratio … Fetch Doc
Advancing A New Approach To Drug Policy: Key Accomplishments
The Obama Administration recognizes that drug use is a threat to the Nation’s public health, and that drug amounts of powder cocaine and crack cocaine required for the imposition of mandatory … Read Document
Written Statement Of Over Seventy-Five Organizations & Law …
Equalized crack and powder cocaine penalties, which was co-sponsored by then Senator Obama. 5 Reducing the quantity threshold for powder cocaine to that of crack cocaine is an option that was unanimously … View Document
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RELEASES ACTION PLAN TO ADDRESS NATIONAL …
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RELEASES ACTION PLAN TO ADDRESS NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE unintentionally overdosed on prescription drugs now exceeds the number who overdosed during the crack cocaine … Doc Retrieval
NAACP-SUPPORTED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE CRACK COCAINE / POWDER …
Evening of Wednesday, March 17, 2010, by unanimous consent (without a recorded vote); it will now go to President Obama The NAACP will continue, however, to push for complete elimination of the disparities between crack and powder cocaine sentencing. Everyone seems to agree that crack cocaine use is … Fetch Doc
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Q-5: Can President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder make the FSA retroactive? The Commission’s temporar y emergency amendment only affected sentencing guideline ranges, not mandatory minimums, for federal crack cocaine offenses. … Access Document
Racial Disparities In Federal Sentencing: A Quantile …
2009 the Obama administration urged Congress to end the racial disparity.3 The 100 to 1 crack-powder sentencing disparity is a disparity in legislative prison 4 We leave the legal disparity due to differences in powder/crack cocaine sentences to future work. … Content Retrieval
Looking For The President's Pardon Power? Try The Supreme Court.
At a recent oral argument in a case involving the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines, Supreme Court Justice recent Bush White House, urges President Obama to make more generous of his pardon power to … Fetch Here
Los Angeles Police Department Office Of The City Attorney …
We will use every legal tool at our disposal to shut down any and all criminal enterprise,” said LAPD Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon. grams of powder cocaine, 51 gross grams of crack cocaine, 121 gross grams of marijuana and ten … Fetch Full Source
Federal Cocaine Sentencing Disparity: Sentencing Guidelines …
President Obama signed the bill into law on August 3, 2010 (P.L. 111-220). S. 1789 reduces the statutory 100:1 ratio to 18:1, by increasing the threshold amount of crack cocaine to 28 grams (for the 5-year sentence) and 280 all-American basketball player, Len Bias, from the use of cocaine. 13 Crack … Access Document
THE COST OF INCARCERATION ? 10-22-2009
The Obama administration wants to change the law to end the 100-to-1 ratio in sentencing. Crack cocaine use is waning and methamphetamine use is on the rise. According to the study, there was a 21.6 percent drop in the number of Blacks … Doc Viewer
Can We Now Talk About Obama's Accusers? – Sunday, November 27 …
According to Sinclair, he and the then-state senator shared a few lines of cocaine before Obama procured some crack for the two to smoke. As Sinclair related, … Doc Viewer
Committee On The Judiciary Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism …
Are too poor to use cocaine in private homes or clubs. • 73 percent of crack defendants had only low-level involvement in drug activity. I look forward to working with this Congress and the Obama administration with the goal of achieving a fair, sound, and … Fetch This Document
DECEMBER 5, 2008 Our Drug Policy Is A Success
Workplace tests for cocaine show the lowest use on record. By JOHN WALTERS Whatever challenges await him, President-elect Barack Obama will not have to reinvent the McCain in southeast Cleveland, who risked his life to drive crack dealers out of his … Get Doc
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Dear President-Elect Obama, We are both heartened by your electoral victory and excited by the many opportunities for legislation eliminating the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, despite the fact that there were four different crack/powder reform bills before the U.S … Get Doc
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, V. CURTIS RASHE …
Defendant-Appellant Curtis Turner pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of crack cocaine in That the district court felt that it would be “inappropriate” to vary from the crack–cocaine Guidelines based solely on the Obama Administration’s position … Fetch This Document
Eric Blumenson And Eva Nilsen*
Congress to lower sentences for sale and possession of crack cocaine so that Administration will take on the broader issue of recreational use. Despite encouraging statements, Obama‘s first budget did not reveal much … Retrieve Doc