Thursday, May 8, 2008

Justices: Judges can slash crack sentences

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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