A trend toward fairer sentences

By Derrick Z. Jackson | December 21, 2010 | Boston Globe

“…At least some judges are responding in a common-sense way to legal disparities that are enshrined in federal law — in particular, to the unjustifiably harsher penalties for crimes related to crack cocaine than for ones connected to cocaine in powder form…”

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/12/21/a_trend_toward_fairer_sentences/

 

 

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