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…”
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