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When the Not-So-Smart Crowd Governs ...

By Tom Lincoln

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Last year we had this bill [H.R. 4547] in Congress - in the midst of the Blakely decision -- that would have added more mandatory minimum sentences. I wrote about it at Macondo Law in this post:Drug Points to Start Carding Customers? More Mandatory Minimums? Even before Blakely was decided, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) introduced a bill that would increase from one year to 10 the mandatory minimum sentence for anyone 21 or older who sells any amount of a controlled substance (even a single joint) to someone under 18. A second offense of this sort would trigger a mandatory life sentence.This year we have pending H.R. 1528, the crazy sentencing bill with the so-called Booker-fix, of which I wrote about here and here. Apparently not having satisfied its addiction to ever harsher punishments (of others, of course), the House of Representatives is now considering H...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on May 09, 2005 (boomark / email).