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"Sentencing Commission's Retroactive Crack/Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines"
Posted by Chuck Kallendorf: “Amendments to the Sentencing Commission’s crack cocaine guidelines and their retroactivity become effective today. That...

CA1: First says that Pho withstands Kimbrough, regardless of text
US v. Russell, No. 07-1790 affirms a sentencing after multiple Booker remands. This is a Cocaine base case. Although this is a pre-guidelines-modification sentence, ?The [District] court ...

Sentencing Commission's Retroactive Crack/Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines
Amendments to the Sentencing Commission?s crack cocaine guidelines and their retroactivity become effective today. That also allows the first group of prisoners eligible for modest sentence reductions to be released from federal prisons, as well...

Cracking the guidelines
Last year the Sentencing Commission retroactively amended the crack guidelines. But what happens when a defendant was sentenced as a career offender? Here's the Law.com article discussing how the 11th Circuit oral argument from the 5 consolidated cases (4 from Judge Hurley, 1 from Judge Middlebrooks) went in Atlanta today:Today, two of the most controversial issues in sentencing law -- the length of sentences for crack cocaine offenders and judges' ability to go outside the federal sentencing guidelines -- will intersect in arguments at a federal appeals court panel sitting in Atlanta...

Cooperation prompts prosecutors to seek delay in Rezko sentencing
As detailed in this Chicago Tribune article, a high-profile sentencing may be put on the back-burner because the defendant is working with prosecutors. Here are the specifics: In the first official sign that Antoin "Tony" Rezko and his lawyers are...

U.S. Supreme Court Lets Stand Crack Sentence Even After "Nightmare"
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 1, 2008. "The Supreme Court refused yesterday to reconsider a legal rule that the Los Angeles Times might surprise most Americans: Judges can punish defendants for certain crimes even after a jury has acquitted them...

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