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Interesting new op-ed on crack sentencing and clemency

By Douglas A. Berman

Two of my favorite co-authors, Profs Marc Miller and Steve Chanenson, have this new op-ed in the Dallas Morning News headlined "Bush should give clemency to fix unfair crack sentences."  Here are excerpts:Crack is back before Congress. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has come out against a new sentencing policy designed to bring a partial measure of fairness to the sentencing of federal crack offenders.  Crack is creeping back into the presidential campaign, where there is great need for leadership on this fundamental issue of race and justice.... Last year, the [US sentencing] commission proposed and Congress accepted a modest adjustment in the sentencing guidelines that prospectively reduces crack penalties and narrows the quantity-based punishment gap at points...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).