Crack Cocaine Drug Laws
Objective: To Better Understand How Courts Make Decisions …
Without more evidence that 3 grams of crack cocaine included only drug dealers, the statue could be arbitrarily punishing personal users in a more harsh way. One of the inherent rights secured to a free people by Section 2 is the inherent right to “equal and impartial laws which govern the … Retrieve Doc
February 26, 2008 – E- MAIL: WASHINGTONBUREAU@NAA CPNET.ORG …
I am here today because the federal mandatory minimum sentence for crack cocaine is an is having a devastating effect on our neighborhoods and that these laws continue concluded in its 2002 report, the violence that was often associated with crack cocaine is related to the nature of the drug … Fetch Document
“After” The War On Drugs: – December 2011
In 1990, Oklahoma set a 6-to-1 quantity-based sentencing disparity that required a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence for possessing five grams of crack cocaine and 28 grams of powder cocaine. II. Consequences of U.S. Drug Laws … Retrieve Content
F EDERAL C RACK C OCAINE S ENTENCING Overview – Origins Of …
Months Crack Cocaine Powder Cocaine SOURCE: U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2009 Sourcebook of federal Sentencing Statistics and Prison Impact Model, FY2009 datafile Drug Quantities and Crack Cocaine Penalties The federal sentencing laws Congress passed in the 1980s were intended to impose tough … Fetch Content
Written Testimony Of Bill Piper Director Of National Affairs …
Hearing on “Federal Cocaine Sentencing Laws: Reforming the 100-to-1 Crack/Powder Disparity” February 12 th, 2008 I want to thank Chairman Biden for providing the Drug Policy Alliance with the opportunity to submit written testimony and for introducing the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin … Read Full Source
Cracks In The System
Remains the harshest in the nation, at least 16 states also have laws that create a disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentences.78 For example, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Ohio have created sentencing disparities since 1995. Iowa has a 100:1 drug quantity ratio in its statute, … Retrieve Here
Federal Cocaine Sentencing In Transition
That crack and powder cocaine “are two forms of the same drug, containing the same active ingre- In fact, cocaine sentencing issues are now much broader than just the question of what is the “right” punishment for violating certain federal drug laws. … Get Doc
DISCRIMINATION IN U.S. DRUG LAWS
DISCRIMINATION IN U.S. DRUG LAWS Written by Le Sheng Liu, Email:[email protected] – A higher percentage of blacks arrested and sentenced for crack & cocaine offenses, although the percentage of white users are … Content Retrieval
DOJ Seal US.
FROM: David W. Ogden Deputy Attorney General SUBJECT: Department Policies and Procedures Concerning Sentencing for Crack Cocaine Offenses In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug policy to develop proposals for tough, predictable, and fair sentencing laws that will eliminate … Retrieve Document
Cracks In The System: Twenty Years Of The Unjust Federal …
•To the extent that the states have similar disparities in their laws, the states should also equalize differences in the drug quantity ratios between powder and crack cocaine at levels that properly focus on major drug dealers and not low-level participants. … Visit Document
COMMENT Cocaine Base: Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
crack. 13 The circuit split over the interpretation of cocaine base in § 841 has led to a nonuniform application of this drug penalty statute. 14 Since the 1980s, Congress has passed laws aimed at achieving … Return Document
UNFAIRNESS IN FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING: IS IT TIME TO CRACK …
Examination of Federal drug sentencing laws. Congress must bal-ance a desire to reform the current sentencing disparity with the need to ensure that our Federal drug laws maintain appropriate tough penalties for crack cocaine trafficking. … Access Document
Cocaine & Federal Sentencing Policy
Nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists. Clearly the 100:1 powder/crack cocaine ratio would qualify as such a law. Although a discussion of the nation’s drug abuse problem and the impact of … Fetch Document
Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity FAQ – Phone: 202-216-0035 …
Between crack and powder cocaine without increasing the penalties or penalty triggers for either drug. Why do we need reform? • The crack/powder disparity fuels racial disparities. In 2006, blacks constituted 82% of those sentenced under federal crack cocaine laws while whites constituted only … Content Retrieval
HARVARD LAW
Most are addicted to crack cocaine. 7 The prosecution of drug-addicted mothers is part of an alarming trend towards greater state intervention into the The principle of self-definition has special significance demonstrated that laws punishing drug-addicted mothers do not meet this test. … View Document