Litigation
Apr. 9, 2002
Panel Urges Change In Cocaine Sentences
WASHINGTON - Bucking the wishes of the White House, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Sentencing Commission has recommended that Congress reconcile penalty disparities between trafficking in crack cocaine and trafficking in powder cocaine.
WASHINGTON - Bucking the wishes of the White House, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Sentencing Commission has recommended that Congress reconcile penalty disparities between trafficking in crack cocaine and trafficking in powder cocaine.
The guidelines set much more severe sentences for crack than for powder cocain...
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