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Shorter Crack Sentences Take Effect

By Mark Jakubik

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The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s guideline revisions shrinking the penalty gap between crack and cocaine powder took effect last week. (Amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines take effect automatically six months after they’re approved by the commission unless they’re overriden by Congress, which in this case took no action.) As a result of the changes, The Christian Science Monitor reports, “up to 4 in 5 people found guilty of crack-cocaine offenses will get sentences that are, on average, 16 months shorter than they would have been under the former guidelines.” The commission has not decided yet whether to make the changes retroactive. If it does, says the Monitor, “more than 19,500 people now serving time for crack offenses could see their sentences reduced by an average of 27 months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog on November 05, 2007 (boomark / email).

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