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1 Jun 2014, 11:39 am
This section of the Mental Hygiene Law was originally enacted in April, 1966, as part of a comprehensive plan to provide care, treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 12:47 pm
It's time to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws and replace them with a sensible policy grounded in public health and common sense. [read post]
23 Jul 2014, 2:58 pm
The People contend that the Penal Law revisions were designed to ameliorate the severe penalties imposed under the 'Rockefeller Drug Law,' and, consequently, would not be an unconstitutional retroactive application of the law. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 4:12 am
Yet even then, with the experiment of the unduly harsh Rockefeller Laws proving to be an utter failure to serve their theoretical purpose of deterring drug crime, no one dreamed that America would lead the civilized world in incarceration. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 7:01 pm
The effect of the 1973 Rockefeller Drug Laws was largely directed at divesting the judiciary of discretion in the disposition of indictments and imposition of mandatory sentences in drug crimes. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 7:16 pm
By that time the ship was on its way to the Bahamas, where the alleged perpetrator was allowed to disembark, out of the reach of U.S. law enforcement. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 5:43 pm
Pauly, 21 AD3d 595 (2005), he rejected constitutional challenges to the retroactive application of Rockefeller drug law reforms; and in Auto. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 4:20 pm
According to the court, the new DLRA was the response of the New York State Legislature to a long-time call to amend the so-called Rockefeller drug laws which some have argued were outdated and draconian. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 6:20 am
Nowhere is repeal of mandatory-sentencing policies more urgently needed than in New York, which sparked an unfortunate national trend when it passed its draconian Rockefeller drug laws in the 1970s. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 2:44 pm
In sum, under the 2009 Drug Law Reform Act or DLRA, certain prisoners sentenced under the so-called Rockefeller Drug Laws are allowed to be resentenced. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 5:02 am
(See, e.g., this editorial re NY's Rockefeller Laws.) [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 2:00 am
But there is another story; over the last 15 years, homicides have tripled in Mexico and as many as 90% of the guns used in drug-related violence come from the United States. [read post]
9 May 2024, 11:30 am
In contrast, I stopped smoking weed when I began enforcing anti- drug laws, not based on any abstract concern about hypocrisy but because my employer, the United States Department of Justice, required random drug testing of its staff.I resumed my acquaintance with recreational drugs when I started law teaching, which some people would say explains a lot. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 7:57 pm
Darden also resolves "an open question on the effect of the amended Rockefeller drug laws [ in New York] on a federal statute that carries strict penalties for hen possession by repeat felons. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 8:05 am
Lisa Rockefeller and Edward Sebelius 3. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:51 am
These laws often require disproportionate mandatory minimum prison sentence lengths for offenses, particularly drug offenses. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 12:39 pm
appeared first on Nonprofit Law Blog. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 2:00 pm
He has been a champion for reform of the Rockefeller drug laws, for sensible gun control laws, for marriage equality, for tenants' rights, and for countless other causes of importance to our community. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 6:00 am
” It is sustained by fines paid by impaired drivers, and its coordinators “are comprised of diverse professional backgrounds, including law enforcement and non-law enforcement. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 9:30 am
I'm honored to have The Nation's support, and to be called "the candidate who most passionately and boldly describes... an alternative future [of our criminal justice system]" and "the candidate with the clearest record of lifelong and unwavering opposition to the death penalty and strong advocacy of Rockefeller drug-law reform. [read post]
