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Effective review of implementation of crack retroactivity

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, headlined "Virginia leads in crack sentence reductions," provides a terrific review of some of the latest realities in the retroactive application of the new federal crack guidelines.  Here are some excerpts from the article:Virginia leads the nation in the number of prisoners who've had sentences reduced under new federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine, U.S. Sentencing Commission numbers show. Federal judges in Virginia have lowered the sentences of at least 825 prisoners since the new rules took effect March 3 ? with the average prisoner getting more than two years cut from a sentence, according to a recent report from the commission.  Judges have granted sentence reductions to 65 percent of the 1,271 federal prisoners in Virginia whose applications were acted upon by July 22...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).