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Some TX federal judges not waiting for Congress to fix crack sentencing disparity

Setting aside federal sentencing guidelines SCOTUS has declared voluntary, several federal judges in Texas including, most recently, Judge Leonard Davis in Tyler, have decided to reduce the disparity in drug sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, reports Jason Trahan at the Dallas News Crime Blog. He quotes an email from a federal public defender who announced:Judge Davis adopted the current national trend toward equalization of the two forms of the same drug, rejected the Guidelines in their current form, and declared that beginning today and from this point forward, he will sentence Defendants convicted of Federal crack cocaine offenses the same as if the form of the cocaine was powder. Kimbrough was of enormous benefit to the Court in his decision...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).