(Supreme) Court to Review Cocaine Sentencing Case

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Court to Review Cocaine Sentencing Case

The Associated Press
Monday, June 11, 2007; 12:09 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review
whether judges are required to impose dramatically longer
sentences for crack cocaine than for cocaine powder, stepping
into a long-running dispute with racial overtones.

The justices said they would hear the case of Derrick Kimbrough
in the fall. Kimbrough, a veteran of the first war with Iraq in
1991, received a 15-year prison term for dealing both crack and
powder cocaine, as well as possession of a firearm in Norfolk, Va.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101012.html

[jayfish]

1. Ughhh... The Fewer Cases This Court Takes The Better. -NT-

Jay

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Wonder how Clarence will vote.

[High Plains]

3. Federal drug sentences are criminal.

When do we get our drug war Nuremburg?