Focus (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 23, 2007
Sentencing Guidelines Meant to Crack Down on Drugs are Aiding Traffickers
Forum Column - By Kara Gotsch - The Supreme Court will weigh in soon on whether discrepancies in sentencing for possession of crack versus possession of cocaine pass constitutional muster.
By Kara Gotsch
This month, the Supreme Court heard a case that touched on a 20-year-old controversy involving justice and crack cocaine. The court will rule early next year in Kimbrough v. United States whether a federal district judge's more lenient sentencing decision, based on his disagreement with policy that punishes crimes involving crack cocaine more harshly than those involving powder cocaine, is re...
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