Sentences with phrase «crack cocaine»

Client driving her motor vehicle when caught, searched, and discovered in possession of a significant quantity of crack cocaine, hidden in her clothing.

For example, for years, sentences for crack cocaine could be up to 100 times longer than sentences for powder cocaine, even though they are nearly identical chemically.

One crack cocaine sentencing reduction issue that I still don't fully understand is: why not make the sentences equal for equal amounts?

Of course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addict.

But crack cocaine didn't seem appropriate, so I went for «cookie butter cookie dough caramel bars» instead.

The vast majority of women targeted under this policy are crack cocaine users.

The girl was chewing on the bag, thinking the white stuff inside was sugar — but it was actually crack cocaine.

You're thinking of things along the lines of crack cocaine and heroin.

Eight of the prisoners I talked with were there for marijuana charges, two for crack cocaine.

The mayor said for the first time today he bought illegal drugs while in office after admitting last week to using crack cocaine and being drunk in public.

The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

In 2013, footage surfacing of Ford smoking crack cocaine while in office.

First, thousands of defendants charged with crack cocaine offenses will continue to face irrationally long sentences.

Their smuggled cocaine was then distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, and profits funneled back to the Contras.

Sanchez by far best buy, how barca sold them, they must have been on crack cocaine at the time round a table when they made that decision.

A dozen people were charged with selling crack cocaine, heroin and generic Xanax to undercover officers.

A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission says that federal courts handled more than 17,000 cases this year brought by crack cocaine offenders seeking shorter prison sentences.

(3) The current quantity - based penalties overstate the seriousness of most crack cocaine offenses and fail to provide adequate proportionality.

They learned, for instance, that tuberculosis was being spread in Kansas when crack cocaine users blew smoke (along with water droplets containing the TB bacterium) into one another's mouths.

CROWN HEIGHTS — A dozen crack cocaine dealers who peddled their wares within a block of a school were arrested this week in Crown Heights following a yearlong sting operation, officials announced Thursday.

In Massachusetts, Brima Wurie was convicted of distributing crack cocaine and sentenced to 262 months in a federal prison.

The country has a festering problem with crack cocaine addiction, because the Colombian couriers distribute the drug as salary to their Belizean assistants, who sell it for a relative pittance on the streets of Belize City.

Police accused Underwood of possessing crack cocaine at the time of his arrest, and charged him with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Investigators seized crack cocaine, heroin, 40 envelopes of heroin packaged for sale, suboxone strips and $ 917 in suspected drug sales.

Hart says he was impelled to do the research because of distortions of the evidence for harm from crack cocaine.

For me that's similar to what I'd imagine coming off crack cocaine cold turkey... [Read more...]

The drama, from the Oscar - nominated writer and director of «Boyz n the Hood,» is set against the backdrop of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.

«Kill the Messenger,» a biopic about Gary Webb, the San Jose Mercury News reporter who first connected the influx of crack cocaine into the United States in the 1980s with the CIA's illegal funding of the Nicaraguan contras, fits in the latter category.

Darren's birth mother used crack cocaine while breastfeeding him.

To judges and others who long battled strict federal sentencing rules for crack cocaine offenders — considered draconian and racist by longtime opponents — Monday's Supreme Court decision brought vindication.

After 24 years on the books, 15 years of trying, 7 Congresses, 10 hearings, three Sentencing Commission reports, and 75,000 defendants sentenced... today, the U.S. Senate voted — unanimously — to make crack cocaine penalties fairer...

Client charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking crack cocaine had his charges withdrawn in Superior Court in Brampton following a three day preliminary inquiry and questioning of the police officers involved in the search.

If that isn't sobering, consider this; smoking crack cocaine enhances mood, heightens sexual interest, boosts self - confidence and promotes an overall heightened sense of consciousness.

«One crack cocaine cigarette and you're addicted for life.»

«The NYPD initiated a yearlong investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling community,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a press release Thursday.

Albany police searched a Livinston Avenue home on Sept. 8, 2015, and found about 13.5 grams of crack cocaine tied in a plastic baggie in a sneaker in Kirkley's bedroom, prosecutors said.

That's why crack cocaine is more addictive than snorted cocaine: inhaling into the lungs» large surface area rather than the mucous membranes of the nose gets the drug into the bloodstream much faster.

Lindo's work was Oscar - worthy, particularly his chilling monologue on how crack cocaine reveals one's true self.

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

«[His] painting is to normal aesthetic sensibility what crack cocaine is to mint tea....

Every day, someone tries to buy crack cocaine with Monopoly money and gets beaten up.

2) Question: I am driving to court to face drug trafficking charges and I am starting to regret my jacket selection — it is an illustrated, how - to manual of how to cook crack cocaine (photo here).

The accused approached each worker in his vehicle, asked them to purchase crack cocaine for him, drove them to a secluded area and assaulted both of them (sexually assaulted only the first worker).