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Crack debate becoming really whack really quickly

By Douglas A. Berman

When the US Sentencing Commission decided in December to make its new crack guidelines retroactive effective March 3, 2008, I knew that the script was already in place for sentencing March Madness.  But with AG Michael Mukasey's recent congressional testimony urging Congress to block retroactivity for the new crack guidelines (basics here and here), crack wackiness has gotten a running start.  And there is no evidence that sanity is going to prevail anytime soon.  Indeed, news reports and upcoming events suggest that the crack story will only get more whack in the days and weeks ahead. First, consider this interesting and troublesome news report from Buffalo, headlined ""Battle shapes up over crack sentences: Waivers may block bids for early release...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).