hypocritexposer
Well-known member
Instead of going with the higher sentence, they'll go with the lower.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/29/obama-seeks-change-sentences-crack-possession/
"The administration believes Congress' goal should be to completely eliminate the disparity in prison sentences between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine," Breuer said in written testimony to be delivered Wednesday.
Federal law now has what lawyers call a "100-to-1" ratio for cocaine sentences, in which a person selling five grams of crack faces the same five-year mandatory minimum sentence as someone selling 500 grams of powder cocaine.
Critics of the law say it unfairly punishes black offenders, pointing to statistics showing 82 percent of federal crack cocaine convicts were black, while nine percent were white.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/29/obama-seeks-change-sentences-crack-possession/