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24 Jun 2012, 4:46 pm
Fair sentencing – under the new Fair Sentencing Act, P.L. 111-220, 124 Stat. 2372, Justice Department lawyers ultimately argued to the Supreme Court for a less strict reading of the timing of the new law, allowing judges sentencing crack cocaine defendants to use the new guidelines earlier. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 3:02 pm
MARCIA COYLE: The justices decided that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which Congress passed in order to lower the mandatory minimum sentences for crack offenders, does apply to that narrow band of offenders who were convicted before the 2010 law, but sentenced after the 2010 law. [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]
15 Jun 2012, 9:52 am
United States (consolidated) Argued on April 17, 2012 Plain English Issue: Whether the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the sentences for defendants who are convicted of crack cocaine offenses, applies to defendants who were convicted before the Act went into effect but sentenced after it. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 1:49 pm
Charles Smith used a Euclid residence to sell, process, and store cocaine and crack cocaine, according to the indictment. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 1:49 pm
Charles Smith used a Euclid residence to sell, process, and store cocaine and crack cocaine, according to the indictment. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 12:12 pm
The second new law reduces the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses to 18-to-1. [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]
17 May 2012, 1:30 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act was passed almost immediately thereafter, on August 3, 2010. [read post]
8 May 2012, 7:35 pm
Specifically, the Fair Sentencing Act required new guidelines be issued for crack sentencing. [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]
4 May 2012, 11:34 am
Missouri: • The Missouri House passed a bill to reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine from an abysmal 75-to-1 to 5-to-1. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 4:21 pm
Before they were sentenced, the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) went into effect. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 10:24 am
The Court of Appeals’ attempt to distinguish Kimbrough as being all about the Commission (and not Congress) would seem to be unavailing where 1) Congress created the 100:1 ratio and used it to set the mandatory minimum sentences in the statute, 2) the Commission brought the problems with the crack-to-powder ratio to Congress’ attention at least twice before the Fair Sentencing Act and Congress refused to change it (that is, Congress… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:35 pm
In Austin, the Ninth (following a fractured Supreme Court), denies relief to a defendant seeking a reduced sentence under the Fair Sentencing Act (the legislation that reduced the unfair and disparate sentences for crack cocaine). [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 5:19 am
(Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images / April 17, 2012) Nearly two years ago, President Obama signed into law a "fair sentencing" act to reduce the long prison terms meted out to people who were caught with small amounts of crack cocaine. [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]
16 Apr 2012, 3:37 am
Back in 1986, having watched one too many episodes of Miami Vice, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed stiff penalties on trafficking in crack cocaine. [read post]
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]
4 Apr 2012, 9:39 am
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