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More coverage of crack retroactivity realities

By Douglas A. Berman

The Friday papers bring these two notable stories about the new retroactive crack guidelines.  From the Washingont Post here, "Crack Offenders Set for Release Mostly Nonviolent, Study Says":Most of the more than 1,500 crack cocaine offenders who are immediately eligible to petition courts to be released from federal prisons under new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission are small-time dealers or addicts who are not career criminals and whose charges did not involve violence or firearms, according to a new analysis by the commission staff.... The figures are at odds with the characterization of the inmates by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who would like Congress to pass legislation voiding the U.S. Sentencing Commission policy before it takes effect March 3...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).