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US Sentencing Commission announces big public hearing on mandatory minimums

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed via this little notice, the United States Sentencing Commission has scheduled a public hearing for all day next Thursday at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C. As the notice explains, the "purpose of the public hearing is for the Commission to gather testimony from invited witnesses regarding the issue of statutory mandatory minimum penalties in federal sentencing."  The list of invited witnesses scheduled to testify next week at the USSC can be found here, though who will testify on behalf of the United States Department of Justice is not indicated (and may not yet be known). I suspect all the testimony at this hearing will be interesting, even though the positions likely to be taken by certain witnesses are obvious...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).