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New report from The Sentencing Project on "Cracked Justice"

By Douglas A. Berman

Via e-mail I received this report on this notable new report from The Sentencing Project: A new report from The Sentencing Project, Cracked Justice, ... addresses disparities in cocaine sentencing in 13 states and documents efforts at the federal and state level to correct these injustices.  State cocaine sentencing disparities include: ? In Missouri, where a defendant convicted of selling six grams of crack cocaine faces the same prison term -- a ten-year mandatory minimum -- as someone who sells 450 grams of powder cocaine, or 75 times that amount. ? In Oklahoma, which maintains a 6-to-1 quantity-based sentencing disparity, a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence is triggered for five grams of crack cocaine and 28 grams of powder cocaine. ? In Ohio, sentencing disparities vary across felony categories based on quantity amounts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).