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Burgess v. U.S., No. 06-11429 (U.S. Supreme Court) (553 U.S. 124; 128 S.Ct. 1572) (April 16, 2008) (Justice Ginsburg)

Loaded on March 1, 2008 published in Punch and Jurists March 17, 2008
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Statutory Interpretation.

Here the Court upheld the imposition of an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence on a defendant in a drug case after concluding that a prior state crime that was classified as a misdemeanor under state law qualified as a “felony drug offense” under the CSA.

The general issue before the Court ...

 

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