Some SCOTUS sense: sentencing standards!

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Some SCOTUS sense: sentencing standards!

Postby Xenu » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:47 pm

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/1 ... k.cocaine/

7-2, bizarrely (and Scalia and Thomas weren't on the same page). Downward departures from the sentencing guidelines re. disparities between crack and cocaine are OK now, apparently.

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Postby lukpac » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:26 pm

In related news, this month's Rolling Stone has a great article on the War on Drugs:

How America Lost the War on Drugs
"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD