Crack Cocaine Laws South Carolina

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In the US in 40 years) and the sentencing rules for selling crack cocaine were made less severe (Humphreys, 2010). The change in cocaine sentencing at the federal level seems to have inspired some states to make parallel changes. South Carolina and Texas, which had comparable cocaine-related laws … Document Viewer

2011 CRACK GUIDELINE AMENDMENT RETROACTIVITY IS SAFE, FAIR …
The FSA increased the amounts of crack cocaine that trigger mandatory minimum sentences for federal rates in many states across the country, including California, 17 Alabama, 18 Iowa, South Carolina 28 leading minority communities, defendants, and judges to feel disrespect for the crack laws … Return Document

Children's Law Report
Consequently, the defendant's act of ingesting crack cocaine during the viable fetus is a child for purposes of the state's child abuse and neglect laws. In light of this holding, the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) had … Document Viewer

June 28, 2011 The Honorable Raymond E. Cleary, III
Carolina laws. The South Carolina Court of Appeals addressed the giving of a false or misleading statement to officer observed a bag of what appeared to be crack cocaine on the ground after he rolled the defendant … View Full Source

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Video Poker Laws Video poker received renewed atten-tion in the Tar Heel state when the South Carolina Supreme Court banned all of to video gambling as the “crack cocaine of gambling”.20 Video poker is considered more … Retrieve Full Source

Drug Take-back Programs: Safe Disposal Of Unused, Expired Or …
Given that Federal laws and regulations do not clearly and specifically the height of the black tar heroin epidemic and twice as high as the crack cocaine peak of the early 1990s. 8 The North Carolina 91% of largemouth bass tested in the Yadkin-Pee Dee basin in North and South Carolina … View This Document

The Black Commentator – On The Criminalization Of Black Mothe
Driven by hysteria and misinformation regarding the so-called “crack baby” epidemic, these laws first became popular during the 1980s. South Carolina smoking crack cocaine during her pregnancy. In 1989, a group of prosecutors in South Carolina, in cooperation with the police and … Document Retrieval

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I began this research questioning the difference between the laws for cocaine and crack1. labor refused to go South and enter into competition with the slave labor of South Carolina, Florida, … Return Doc

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City of Charleston, South Carolina: "fetal abuse," drug testing, and the Fourth Amendment. During the late 1980s, crack cocaine emerged as the most frightening enemy in the "War on Drugs." Instead, local prosecutors worked to expand the reach of the criminal laws on the books … Read Full Source

CHAPTER FIVE: FAMILY LAW
In 1997, the South Carolina Supreme Whitner’s ingestion of crack cocaine during the third trimester of pregnancy. The court found that a fetus is a “person” or “child” within the state’s child abuse statute. South Carolina is Nevada have struck down laws similar to South Carolina’s. … Visit Document

Families Against Mandatory Minimums FAMM
Tencing laws for crack cocaine. Many people called and wrote to congratulate FAMM for helping in South Carolina for possession of a small amount of cocaine. Like federal law, South Carolina classi- … Retrieve Full Source

DUE SOUTH: South Carolina: Justice System Overhaul
A number of states and the federal government have recently changed their sentencing structures to reduce disparities in drug laws. ? In 2010 the federal government, like South Carolina, reduced the sentencing disparity of crack and powdered cocaine offenses from 100 to 1 to 18 to 1. ? In 2000 … Document Retrieval

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Fetuses. n8 In 2003, in another 3-2 decision, the Supreme Court of South Carolina upheld the application of the state's homicide laws to pregnant women, ruling that a pregnant babies born to mothers who used crack cocaine while pregnant, were at one time written off by many as a lost … Access Content

UCLA Law Review
Notable slave uprisings include the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739), an attempted attack on New Orleans (1811), and the Nat Turner The crit jurors and the race rebels have selected just causes – ending the race-based punishment regimes inherent in the crack cocaine and death penalty laws. … Visit Document

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Its development laws at any stage of its development Ñ 12 states implement fetal homicide laws Baby was born with cocaine in system Ñ Baby was born with cocaine in system Ñ Ingested crack cocaine "Regina D. McKnight vsState of South Carolina: A "Regina D. McKnight vsState of South Carolina: A petition … Retrieve Document