This is yet another article about the unfair sentencing differences for drug crimes involving crack versus those involving cocaine, but this time there seems to be a silver lining.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal judges have the discretion to give "reasonably" shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/10/scotus.crack.cocaine/
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