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The committees assigned to this bill passed the act by a vote of 15-5 and sent it to the House or Senate as a whole for consideration on October 22, 2015. On November 5, 2015 there was a significant move with the legislation. Both parties and both chambers of Congress agreed to revisions to federal sentencing guidelines and the mandatory minimums.
Crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–220 (text)) was an Act of Congress that was signed into federal law by United States President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010, that reduces the disparity between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to trigger certain federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio [1] and eliminated the ...
Reduce mandatory sentences for armed career criminals and violent firearm offenses from a 15-year minimum down to 10 years. [3] Reduce mandatory sentences for drug crimes from 15 to 10 years. [4] Limit the use of solitary confinement on juvenile prisoners. [5] Require the federal government to compile a list of every law that includes a ...
Federal law empowers prosecutors seeking mandatory minimum sentences at trial, decisions that can’t be unilaterally overruled by a judge, but judges across the country have long complained that ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to potentially thousands of federal prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under a 2018 law ...
The trial court and the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he was eligible for a mandatory sentence of at least 15 years. He actually received a 13 1/2-year sentence for ...
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was a law pertaining to the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.Among other things, it changed the system of federal supervised release from a rehabilitative system into a punitive system.
Mar. 20—CONCORD — Leaders in the substance abuse recovery field warned state representatives Wednesday that mandatory minimum prison terms for those who import, sell or use fentanyl will only ...