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US Sentencing Commission's "Overview of Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentencing"

By Douglas A. Berman

As previously noted here, the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security last week held a hearing on "Mandatory Minimums and Unintended Consequences."  Now I just discovered that the US Sentencing Commission's website has posted this new lengthy document which is titled "Overview of Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentencing."  Here is how the USSC describes the document on its website's front-page: On July 10, 2009, the Commission provided a statistical overview of statutory mandatory minimum sentencing using fiscal year 2008 data to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security in light of its July 14, 2009 hearing entitled "Mandatory Minimums and Unintended Consequences...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).