Punch and Jurists

U.S. v. Blewett, No. 12-5226 (6th Cir.) (746 F.3d 647) (December 3, 2013) (Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton) by In the 05/27/13 issue of P&J, we noted that the Sixth Circuit had rekindled the debate over some of the many inadequacies and failures of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ((“FSA”), …

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

U.S. v. Blewett, No. 12-5226 (6th Cir.) (719 F.3d 482) (May 17, 2013) (Judge Gilbert S. Merritt) by In August 2010, Congress enacted The Fair Sentencing Act (“FSA”); and, from the outset, that law was not deemed to be one of Congress’ stellar accomplishments. For example, although Congress boldly proclaimed …