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Some SCOTUS sense: sentencing standards!

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:47 pm
by Xenu
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.

Thoughts?

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:26 pm
by lukpac
In related news, this month's Rolling Stone has a great article on the War on Drugs:

How America Lost the War on Drugs