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20 Oct 2010, 11:08 am
Sentencing Crack cocaine The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is not retroactive. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:47 am
Sentencing Commission in downtown Washington, said the Fair Sentencing Act “is being successfully implemented nationwide, achieving its central goals of promoting public safety and public trust and ensuring a fair and effective criminal justice system. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 11:35 am
This bill will reduce mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses, apply the Fair Sentencing Act to those currently serving sentences for crack cocaine offenses, and give judges more discretion to determine if people deserve mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 1:25 pm
According to the NACDL, the Smarter Sentencing Act would:"Cut mandatory minimum sentences for most drug offenses in half;Expand the drug offense safety valve to include more defendants with minor criminal histories;Make the reduced crack cocaine penalties under the Fair Sentencing Act fully retroactive; andRequire the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other agencies to publicly identify every offense within their… [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 1:25 pm
According to the NACDL, the Smarter Sentencing Act would:"Cut mandatory minimum sentences for most drug offenses in half;Expand the drug offense safety valve to include more defendants with minor criminal histories;Make the reduced crack cocaine penalties under the Fair Sentencing Act fully retroactive; andRequire the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other agencies to publicly identify every offense within their purview, as… [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 7:00 am
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) changed the ratio to 18 to 1 but this occurred after DePierre was convicted. ? [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 4:07 pm
Sentencing Commission, created in 1984 by Congress and comprising federal judges and lawyers, issued a report declaring that revising “the crack cocaine thresholds would better reduce the [sentencing] gap than any other policy change, and it would dramatically improve the fairness of the federal sentencing system. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:17 am
Defendant Haziz Self was convicted on two counts of distributing crack cocaine and sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months' imprisonment. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 5:24 pm
Yesterday, President Obama signed S.1789, the long-awaited sentencing fairness act that reduced the appalling 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. [read post]
8 May 2012, 12:27 pm
Ironically, these people are the very same group whose harsh and discriminatory sentences inspired passage of the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the 100:1 powder to crack ratio to 18:1. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 11:05 am
The FSA softened the controversial mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine offenses that have been in place since 1986. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 4:08 pm
The FSA softened the controversial mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine offenses that have been in place since 1986. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 2:51 pm
The Fair Sentencing Law changed what the originally used ratio of 100 to 1 weight of crack to cocaine was amending the weight ratio to 18 to 1. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 1:44 pm
Earlier this morning, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 10:03 am
Last year, Congress took an important step toward creating a more just criminal justice system by passing the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced racial disparities caused by draconian crack cocaine sentencing laws. [read post]
28 Jul 2023, 1:37 pm
The court explained that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduced the sentencing inequality between powder cocaine and crack offenses. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 3:32 am
The latter was the Fair Sentencing Act, which was intended to ameliorate the Draconian effects of the crack/powder cocaine disparity that Congress had created back in 1986, when it established a 1:100 ratio for those offenses: someone peddling five grams of crack would be subject to a minimum of five years in prison, while someone trafficking in powder cocaine could sell up to five hundred grams of the stuff before running… [read post]
8 May 2012, 7:35 pm
Specifically, the Fair Sentencing Act required new guidelines be issued for crack sentencing. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 11:37 am
The new measure (Fair Sentencing Act) increases the amount of crack from five grams to 28 grams for a five-year sentence and eliminates mandatory prison for first-time offenders. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 6:30 am
The position tossed overboard was that sentencing judges should refuse to give retroactive effect to a more lenient crack cocaine sentencing statute passed in the last Congress. [read post]
