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4 Apr 2012, 8:13 am
United States, 11-9016, asks whether an amendment to the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the sentencing differential between crack- and powder-cocaine sentences applies retroactively. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 9:39 am
United States, 11-5683, the Fair Sentencing Act case we know and love, of which more anon. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 10:01 am
Unsurprisingly, cases on hold for the Fair Sentencing Act duo Dorsey v. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 7:58 am
The ranks of cases on hold for the Fair Sentencing Act duo Dorsey v. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 9:40 am
Supreme Court will decide whether the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack- and powder cocaine-related offenses, can apply retroactively. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 1:12 pm
She was the lead House counsel for the historic Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 when it passed Congress. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 2:43 pm
Last year, the commission recommended that the new, fairer sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses established by the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) should be applied retroactively to people sentenced before the FSA was passed. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 12:17 pm
Today we filed a friend-of-the-court brief in two Supreme Court cases that deal with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), which reduced the disparity between federal mandatory minimum sentences for crack versus powder cocaine from 100:1 to 18:1. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 8:42 am
Both cases concern the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the sentencing disparity between mandatory minimums for crack and cocaine offenses from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 2:58 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) is actually only kind of fair. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 12:21 pm
In 2010, the Federal Sentencing Act (FSA) decreased the unfair disparity between the mandatory minimum sentences for crack versus powder cocaine offenses to from 100-to-one to 18-to-one. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 11:37 am
The United States Sentencing Commission took another step toward creating fairness in federal sentencing by voting to retroactively apply the new Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) guidelines to individuals sentenced before the law was enacted. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 12:22 pm
Prior to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, sentencing guidelines for distribution of crack cocaine were much more severe than the sentences for selling powder cocaine. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 10:19 am
An example of those injustices is the unfair and racially biased 18-to-one crack-cocaine sentencing disparity, which was reduced last year from 100-to-one after Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act. [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]
8 Dec 2011, 1:15 pm
United States, 11-5721, involving the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the crack-powder cocaine sentence differential. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 8:04 am
“Selling cocaine in crack form used to subject offenders to the same sentence one would get for selling 100 times as much in powder,” a New York Times article from last week began. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:04 am
In happier news, as we noted last time, the Court confronted a choice about which vehicle to use to address a split over the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the crack-powder cocaine sentence differential. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 3:10 am
The New York Times explains: Selling cocaine in crack form used to subject offenders to the same sentence one would get for selling 100 times as much in powder. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 8:11 am
")Adam Liptak has this story in the NYT on the cases (see update below):Selling cocaine in crack form used to subject offenders to sentences 100 times as long as those for selling it in powder form. [read post]
