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U.S. v. Grant, No. CR 05-813 JSL (C.D.Cal.) (524 F.Supp.2d 1204) (November 30, 2007) (Judge J. Spencer Letts)

Although this decision seems to have been ignored by most commentators, it is an extremely important sentencing decision in which Judge Letts held that the ten year mandatory minimum sentence contained in 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) is unconstitutional as applied to “peripheral participants” in a drug transaction. After a careful ...

 

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