Sentences with phrase «for powder cocaine»

«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.

Not exact matches

But the most daring drug story of all comes from coca - growing Bolivia, where powdered chiles are mixed with powdered cocaine and snorted for what is supposedly the ultimate rush.

This amended a number of previous acts to reduce the disparity in sentencing for those found in possession of crack cocaine as opposed to powder cocaine.

We see this reality in many ways, from where good public schools and bad ones are found to sentencing disparities for possession of crack versus powder cocaine.

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By the time we hear it in From Paris with Love, Charlie Wax (John Travolta) has sat down at a Chinese restaurant, held a gun to the waiter's head, killed all the goons who are protecting the eatery's cover, shot holes in the ceiling until it rains cocaine, and filled up a vase full of the powder for leverage later on.

«Sentencing disparity for cocaine under attack; Crack nets users more prison time than powder drug»: This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle.

The amendments reduced the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine.