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14 Aug 2013, 7:05 am by Jeff Welty
Earlier this week, United States Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking to American Bar Association, announced a policy change in how drug cases will be charged in federal court. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 5:58 am by Timothy P. Flynn
Attorney General Eric Holder announced a significant shift in federal drug policy that could have an impact on our decades-long "War-on-Drugs". [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 8:30 pm by Cynthia Alkon
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced some fundamental changes in how the Department of Justice is going to address charging, prosecuting, and ultimately plea bargaining criminal cases in the federal system. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 7:04 pm by White Collar Crime Prof Blogger
Attorney General Eric Holder's talk (see here) at the American Bar Association Conference should be applauded. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 12:44 pm by Ken White
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the United States Department of Justice would no longer seek lengthy mandatory minimum sentences in some federal drug prosecutions. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:25 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In my last post, I gave a preliminary assessment of Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent speech on reforming charging policy for low-level drug offenders. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 3:45 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In a speech to the American Bar Association today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a potentially important new change in Justice Department policy on charging drug offenders. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 11:10 am by Rekha Arulanantham
Attorney General Eric Holder just called mass incarceration a moral and economic failure. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:30 am
Eric Holder Walks Back The War On Drugs Today, as has been widely reported, Eric Holder will announce that "widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable." [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:25 am by Jeralyn
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a sea change in policy at the Justice Department this morning in his speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:00 am by Rumpole
 AG Holder to announce new  policy to reduce federal drug incarcerations:The NY Times reports here that today Attorney General Eric Holder will announce at the ABA annual meeting in San Francisco (something, strangely, we've never been invited to) a major shift in DOJ policy on drug prosecutions: Prosecutors will no longer list the amount of drugs in an indictment, giving them and the court the ability to sidestep minimum mandatory sentences. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 1:16 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Other Interesting Items from the Past Week Attorney General Eric Holder came out and said it: "I think there are too many people in jail for too long, and for not necessarily good reasons." [read post]