sentencing disparity

Crack Cocaine Powder Cocaine Disparity

CRACK COCAINE REFORMRecommendation to Congress that the disparity be eliminated. The disparity in penalty triggers between crack and powder cocaine is one of the most … Fetch Document The Many (Opaque) Echoes Of Compromise Crack Sentencing Reform(D-Ill.) bill, S. 1789,… Continue reading

Crack Cocaine Disparity Supreme Court

...  Warth Co-Director, Justice Strategies I. BackgroundWith the sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine offenses.” Id. at 565. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court reversed, holding that the Guidelines are advisory only, even with regard to the crack… Continue reading

Crack Cocaine Ratio Sentencing

...  it for sentencing in the future. … Read Document Federal Cocaine Offenses: An Analysis Of Crack And Powder …27 (Heaney, J., concurring) (Congress lacked a rational basis to create a such a harsh distinction in sentencing between crack and… Continue reading