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"New Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this article in today's Washington Post. Here are a few snippets: From March through the first week of December, federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia and in Maryland granted more than 800 such requests and denied about 490. Judges in the District have granted more than 160 and denied nine. Lawyers said Virginia's federal courts have received a large number of applications filed by inmates representing themselves, and many are not eligible for reductions. In the District, the federal public defender is coordinating the effort.... In many cases, prosecutors didn't contest the reductions because the convicts were near the end of their sentences.  In others, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed on reductions within the new guideline...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 01, 2009 (boomark / email).