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6 Apr 2012, 10:13 am
After apprehending Miller on his way out the side door, police searched the house and found several guns and a quantity of crack cocaine. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 7:35 pm
The Act sought to get rid of sentencing disparity, provide transparency and fairness to the process, hand out punishment proportionate to crimes committed, and deter crime. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 7:04 am
The bill also gives judges more leeway when sentencing people who do not pose a public safety risk and applies the Fair Sentencing Act—which reduced the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity—to those currently serving sentences for these offenses. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 9:34 am
I've had the good fortune to get to know, if only slightly, a couple of Commissioners on the US Sentencing Commission. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 8:51 am
The crimes are broken down by substance such as trafficking and conspiracy to traffick in marijuana, heroin, cocaine (powder versus crack) or methamphetamine. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 7:39 am
The Act allows a district court to impose a reduced sentence “as if ” the revised penalties for crack cocaine enacted in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the time the offense was committed. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 1:50 pm
However, the Seventh Circuit did not find such a consensus; although the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 softened crack-powder disparities, the Act did not eliminate them. [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 12:26 pm
Made some provisions of the federal Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (Pub. [read post]
4 Apr 2008, 8:54 am
McCain was against the Racial Justice Act that would have allowed minority defendants sentenced to death to use statistics showing a pattern of discrimination in death penalty sentencing in their jurisdictions in their appeals. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 6:46 pm
U.S., to reject the Guidelines' crack-to-powder cocaine sentencing ratio. . [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 11:51 am
Joseph Biden, who this week introduced the Drug Sentencing Reform & Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2007 which would eliminate the crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity. [read post]
28 May 2018, 4:23 am
And they did one thing more that was extremely controversial: they made it retroactive, which Congress embodied in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 2:58 pm
The elimination or the cocaine/crack disparities has been accomplished. [read post]
2 Oct 2021, 8:51 am
United States involves the First Step Act of 2018, which grants to federal district courts the power to resentence offenders convicted of distributing crack cocaine in light of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 12:58 pm
The Fair Sentencing act of 2010 reduced the mandatory sentencing requirement for people in possession of crack cocaine. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 12:58 pm
The Fair Sentencing act of 2010 reduced the mandatory sentencing requirement for people in possession of crack cocaine. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 1:26 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act was a step in the right direction to eliminate racial disparities in crack cocaine sentencing in particular, Machen said. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 3:17 pm
The 100-to-1 crack-powder sentencing ratio is a perfect example. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 12:59 pm
That 2010 law raised the thresholds of crack cocaine needed to trigger mandatory minimum sentences and thereby reduced sentencing disparities between offenses involving crack cocaine and those involving powder cocaine. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 12:18 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act was passed four years later, substantially reducing the mandatory minimum and advisory range applicable to appellant's offense. [read post]
