New Crack Cocaine Federal Law
Written Testimony Of Bill Piper Director Of National Affairs …
Hearing on “Federal Cocaine Sentencing Laws: Reforming the 100-to-1 Crack/Powder Headquartered in New York City, DPA also has offices in Berkeley, Los When the crack/powder sentencing disparity was enacted into law in the 1980s, crack cocaine … Access Document
New Hampshire Drug Threat Assessment Update
None reported a high level of powdered or crack cocaine availability in their jurisdictions. According to FDSS data, federal law enforcement officials in New Hampshire seized 12.1 kilograms of cocaine in 2002. … View Document
62342 Federal Register /Vol. 75, No. 195/Friday, October 8 …
Two-thirds of federal crack cocaine offenders were street-level dealers and powder and crack cocaine offenses is supported by the association of violence with crack crimes. The new law requires … Fetch Content
Written Statement Of Over Seventy-Five Organizations & Law …
Traffickers, instead of the largely low-level crack cocaine offenses punished under current federal sentencing law. We recognize that over two decades ago, little was known about crack cocaine, other than unsubstantiated fears that this new derivative form of … Retrieve Document
2011 New Laws
This new federal law extends the Form 1099 requirement to any person who receives rental income. This requirement would apply to any landlord (including a … Access Content
United States Attorney Southern District Of New York
Houses"), located in the Bronx, New York, with distributing heroin and crack cocaine. During the six-month investigation, federal and local law enforcement agencies, working with the … Doc Viewer
07 1113 crack Canterbury With Edits
That would lower the penalties for crack cocaine Further, the new guidelines treat crack differently than efforts of State and local law enforcement and a genuine commitment by the Federal government to incarcerate for longer periods of time these offenders who dealt in crack cocaine. … Fetch Document
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES: EXEMPLIFYING THE LAW OF …
The Development of (Federal) Criminal Law, 1 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 23, 28 (1997) (stating that the crack/cocaine sentencing distinction “fl[ies] in the face of expert opinion”). See Stewart, supra note 31, at 39 (“[In the 1980s,] crack cocaine was a new drug … Retrieve Full Source
New Congress To Examine Minimum Mandates; Crack Requirements …
New Congress to Examine Minimum Mandates; Crack Requirements Will Get First Test By GARY FIELDS WASHINGTON — With Democrats poised to take control of Congress, law-enforcement officials are preparing to defend two decades of federal for crack–cocaine convictions. Under current law … Doc Retrieval
Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers Wednesday, August 10, 2011 …
federal time now. Today’s actions do not reflect any new law enforcement crack cocaine in the vicinity of Elm and Oak streets in Yonkers, New York, since … Read Here
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Associated with illicit drugs—and the new phenomenon of crack cocaine in particular—prompted Congress to re vise the penalties for criminal offenses involving cocaine related substances. See id., at 95–96. At the time, federal law generally tied the penalties for drug offenses to both … Read More
URGENT ACTION ALERT
At the time this law was passed, crack cocaine was a fairly new drug and there were concerns (which have subsequently been disproven) that crack is much more Yet in 2006, 82% of those sentenced under federal crack cocaine laws were African American. … Fetch Doc
U.S. Department Of Justice
Amendments pertaining to crack cocaine and of the Impact of the Crack Cocaine Amendment if Made Retroactive,2 retroactive application of the crack amendment alone would require new sentences in approximately 20,000 cases, equivalent to more than 25% of all federal the limited case law to date … Document Retrieval
WHY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS WRONG ABOUT COCAINE SENTENCING
federal cocaine sentences. On March 19, Deputy disparity by setting crack sentences at the powder cocaine levels. Congress rejected that proposal, but directed the Commission to formulate a new recommendation the wrong message: that the criminal law is unfair. Testifying against the crack … Get Doc