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24 May 2011, 10:58 am
I am grateful for the opportunity to address the Commission on the topic of retroactivity for the recently promulgated permanent amendments implementing the Fair Sentencing Act. [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]
7 Jan 2021, 3:05 pm
To reduce the disparity in treatment between the two, the Fair Sentencing Act increased the amount of crack cocaine necessary to trigger enhanced penalties. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm
For Further Reading: The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 changed the crack/powder ratio for mandatory-minimums. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 4:31 am
When crack was invented, a myth immediately grew that it was far more dangerous, far different, than powdered cocaine. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 2:37 pm
(The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 changed this.) [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 12:18 pm
The question before court is whether those sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity in sentences for crack versus powder cocaine are eligible for resentencing under the First Step Act. [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]
18 Mar 2014, 7:43 am
Once Ball chose to commit the crime of illegally distributing crack cocaine, he exposed himself to the possibility of a 19-year prison sentence if the sentencing judge thought that was appropriate. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 12:58 pm
Additionally, last week saw the release of the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013, which would reduce some federal mandatory minimum sentences, make a modest expansion to the safety valve provision (though continuing to exclude anyone previously incarcerated in prison for more than 13 months in the past 10 years), and make the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act applicable to persons sentenced before its enactment, which would reduce sentences… [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]
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]
28 May 2010, 2:11 pm
The Fair Sentencing Act, which would reduce the 100:1 crack-powder ratio to 18:1, has passed the Senate and is awaiting action in the House. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 7:29 am
Probably the most important component of the law is that it would make the Fair Sentencing Act, which lowered the mandatory minimums for crack cocaine-related crimes to those of powder cocaine, retroactive. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 4:58 am
Although Congress lessened the difference four years ago in the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), crack cocaine offenses are still more harshly sentenced than those involving powder. [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]
17 Jun 2018, 4:58 pm
It would take fifteen long years before an African American President named Barak Obama would lead Congress to pass the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 that reduced the disparity between crack and powder cocaine from 100-to-l to 18-1. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 3:22 pm
Following much thought and careful deliberation, the United States Sentencing Commission took another step toward creating fairness in federal sentencing by retroactively applying the new Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) guidelines to individuals sentenced before the law was enacted. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 7:43 pm
The issue as framed by the Court was whether the more lenient penalty provisions of the Fair Sentencing Act “apply to offenders who committed a crack cocaine crime before August 3,2010, but were not sentenced until after August 3. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 8:26 am
U.S. - it appears that this case presents the issue of whether it is fair to punish crack cocaine crime far more severely (100 to 1) than those involving cocaine powder under the federal sentencing guidelines. [read post]
