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The new USSC crack guidelines ... one year later

By Douglas A. Berman

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Maryland's legal newspaper today has this effective article, headlined "Crack cocaine sentences, one year later." The piece reminds us that the US Sentencing Commission's new crack guidelines have now been in place for a full year, and it also provides a terrific look at how the retroactive application of these new guidelines has played out in one jurisdiction. Some related posts: Effective review of implementation of crack retroactivity Latest USSC data on crack retroactivity Catching up with beneficiaries of crack retroactivity New crack guidelines means Willie Mays Aikens gets to go home FSR issue focused on crack retroactivity now on-line

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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