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Crack Retroactivity in Oregon

By Sean Sirrine

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It looks as if the system is working fairly well here in Oregon. The USSC has determined that the crack sentencing disparity should be repaired reroactively for those defendants that received "higher than reasonable" sentences and all sides of the equation seem to be working together. I saw this at Sentencing Law & Policy:

Wax, the public defender in Portland, said the system there appeared to be handling the cases with care, reflecting the close cooperation of local judges, prosecutors, probation officers and public defenders. Two of the five prisoners granted sentence reductions, he said, were sent to halfway houses to serve some of their probationary time before their release into the community. One defendant is being deported; another was transferred from federal to state custody to face other charges. He said the inmate who was released was originally sentenced to 18 months in prison for distributing a small amount of crack.


Full post as published by Objective Justice on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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