Sentences with phrase «crack cocaine offenses»

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

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

The cases came in the wake of retroactive amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines that reduced prison terms for crack cocaine offenses.

Not exact matches

Kimbrough holds that a judge may «consider the disparity between the Guidelines» treatment of crack and powder cocaine offenses» in sentencing.

Neither Kimbrough nor Spears authorized district courts to categorically reject the policy judgments of the Sentencing Commission in areas outside of crack - cocaine offenses, as the majority suggests.

In making that determination, the judge may consider the disparity between the Guidelines» treatment of crack and powder cocaine offenses.

«While a handful of district courts, following Booker, have taken it upon themselves to lower guideline ranges for crack offenses based on a perceived unfairness in comparison with sentencing for powder cocaine crimes, this is plainly beyond judicial authority, and the appellate courts to address the matter have unanimously rejected this result.