Crack Cocaine Sentencing Differences
February 26, 2008 – E- MAIL: WASHINGTONBUREAU@NAA CPNET.ORG …
I would like to take a minute to talk about what we have learned about crack cocaine since the 100-to-1 sentencing ratio became law. It is the myth of the differences between crack and powder cocaine and the “crack baby” that perhaps best reflects one of the reasons the NAACP … Fetch Document
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Work to make differences in those communities. One of the key measures of our success is the legislature to enact stiffer sentencing guidelines for convicted or armed felons who continue to the console of the vehicle and seized 25.4 grams of powder cocaine, 18.4 grams of crack cocaine, 16 … Document Viewer
UNFAIRNESS IN FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING: IS IT TIME TO CRACK …
If Congress considers revising the sentencing dis-parity, we should not discount the severity of crack addiction or ig-nore the differences between crack and powder cocaine trafficking, … Fetch Doc
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crack and the black west. crime and punishment: two black generations collide. pan-africanism in portland, 1991. the multicultural american west. ethnic population distribution in washington, 2000 … Access Full Source
Criminal Division AAG Breuer Testimony Re Restoring Fairness …
Since the United States Sentencing Commission first reported 15 years ago on the differences in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, a consensus has developed that the federal cocaine sentencing laws should be … Access Document
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Tached to crack and powder cocaine, the measure that would be-come the Fair Sentencing Act assuaged these concerns and facili-tated its enactment into law. V. CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS The differences between powder and crack cocaine seemed im- … View Doc
Racial Disparities In Federal Sentencing: A Quantile …
Of people impacted by what is known as the federal ‘Crack/Cocaine Sentencing Disparity.’2 4 We leave the legal disparity due to differences in powder/crack cocaine sentences to future work. … Fetch Here
Testimony Of Lanny A
Since the United States Sentencing Commission first reported 15 years ago on the differences in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, a consensus has developed that the federal cocaine sentencing laws should be … Read Document
F EDERAL C RACK C OCAINE S ENTENCING Overview – Origins Of …
Fiscal year 2009 compared to the projected differences in sentence length after passage of the Fair Sentencing Act. The average crack cocaine sentence will decline by 14 months but crack cocaine … Access Doc
David Levenson
The differences in crack and powder cocaine are negligible (especially when accounting for the large difference in sentencing), how this policy is racially motivated and why it … Fetch Full Source
Only Congress Can Eliminate The 100-to-1 sentencing Disparity …
Only Congress can eliminate the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. sentence length for these crack cocaine prisoners is 122 months, 37 months longer than that for powder cocaine. These differences are due, in large part, to the crack cocaine … Doc Retrieval
ACE AND LASS ENALTIES IN RACK OCAINE ENTENCING
Resulting in recommendations by the United States Sentencing Commission. This briefing paper provides the background to these initiatives by surveying the differences between crack cocaine and powder cocaine as currently held by medical and other … Fetch Document
Cocaine And Federal Sentencing Policy – Feb 1995
crack cocaine offenses and to provide recommendations for retention or modification of these differences. The Commission balanced conflicting policy goals in developing its recommendations concerning powder and crack cocaine sentencing. … Access Document
Cocaine & Federal Sentencing Policy
Efficacy of the current approach to sentencing cocaine offenses. Critics have focused on the differences in federal penalty levels between the two principal forms of cocaine — powder (cocaine hydrochloride) and crack (cocaine base) — and on the … Retrieve Content
Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity FAQ – Phone: 202-216-0035 …
Phone: 202-216-0035 – Fax: 202-216-0803 – www.drugpolicy.org Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity FAQ What is the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity? … View Document
STATEMENT OF JUDGE REGGIE B. WALTON UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
differences between crack and powder cocaine sentences and support the reduction ofthat difference.,,5 I conveyed that view on behalf of the Criminal Law Committee at a Sentencing … View Doc
Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified And Unreasonable
Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable Overview Crack The United States Sentencing Commission recommended revision of the 100:1 quantity ratio in 1995, finding the ratio to be unjustified by the small differences in the two forms of cocaine. … Get Content Here
Talking Points Support S 1789 The Fairness In Cocaine …
Only Congress can eliminate the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. these crack cocaine prisoners is 122 months, 37 months longer than that for powder cocaine. These differences are due, in large part, to the crack cocaine … Access Doc
The Many (Opaque) Echoes Of Compromise Crack Sentencing Reform
Stated in direct terms that the 100-to-1 crack-powder sentencing ratio, which had defined federal punishment terms for more than two decades, failed “to appropriately reflect the differences and similarities between crack and powder cocaine” and was “especially problematic because a growing … View Full Source