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Yet another district judge formally adopts 1-to-1 crack/powder sentencing ratio

By Douglas A. Berman

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As detailed in this effective local article, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has now "said 'sound policy reasons' ? including the new stance of the Justice Department ? led him to reject long-established guidelines for sentencing crack-cocaine defendants." Here are more basics from the article: Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill Jr. characterized the guidelines as unfair.... Cohill rejected the crack-cocaine guidelines for two defendants, whom he sentenced in Erie Aug. 4. He issued two nearly identical written opinions on Thursday that detailed his reasoning. The chief federal prosecutor in Erie, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marshall Piccinini, told Cohill last week that the guidelines were meant to consider the intense high and craving that crack cocaine brings compared to powder cocaine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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