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Crack Cases Clog Federal Courts

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission says that federal courts handled more than 17,000 cases this year brought by crack cocaine offenders seeking shorter prison sentences. The cases came in the wake of retroactive amendments to the federal...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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