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Bring us your tired, your poor, your crack defendants eligible for retroactive sentencing relief

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

Since the amendment lowering sentences for crack offenses has been made retroactive, the lot of us have been running around with our heads cut off trying to figure out what to do. The primary challenges are organizational, which is not my or Melody's strong suit. But the Federal Defenders have, with a great deal of assistance from our staff, begun sorting through the many defendants who may be affected by the new amendment.We are happy to help anyone with clients eligible for relief. The Sentencing Commission has generated a list of defendants they believe to be eligible, but in our experience this list is both underinclusive and overinclusive. It is, nonetheless, a good starting point and we have found it to be a useful reference. If you wish to know whether your client is on the list, please call...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on January 10, 2008 (boomark / email).