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Davis v. U.S. Sentencing Com'n, No. 11-5264 (D.C. Cir.) (716 F.3d 660) (May 28, 2013) (Judge Thomas Beall Griffith)

Loaded on June 10, 2013 published in Punch and Jurists June 10, 2013
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Equal Protection.

For decades, the Federal Government’s approach to sentencing defendants convicted of crack cocaine offenses was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster. It created out of whole cloth a 100:1 sentencing regimen that treated one gram of crack cocaine as the equivalent of 100 grams of powder cocaine. As expected (if ...

 

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