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SCOTUS kicks off new Term considering application of gun mandatory minimums

By Douglas A. Berman

Though the new Supreme Court term does not have many obvious sentencing blockbusters in the works, the term kicks off today with a pair of sentencing cases.  As detailed in this SCOTUSblog post, the two cases address the same basic issue: "in Abbott v. United States and Gould v. United States, the Court will consider whether two defendants were improperly sentenced to consecutive five-year prison terms under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) when they were subject to a greater minimum sentence on a different count of conviction."  This ABA Preview authored by Professor Brooks Holland provides more background: Petitioners Kevin Abbott and Carlos Rashad Gould were convicted of narcotics and firearms offenses, including one count each of possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).