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Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial ‘Subjucation’ »
Since Congress recognized the gaping racial disparity between mandatory minimum sentences for crack offenses and cocaine offenses and reduced the ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, courts have grappled with when and how to apply the statute to already-decided cases. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the reductions in the Fair Sentencing Act applied [...] Source Main page (current trends)
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