An examination of sentencing levels and mandatory minimums
By: Catherine N. Bates, editor
Contributors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service; United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher: Nova Science Publisher's, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781612095639
Subjects: Drugs of abuse; Criminal provisions; Narcotic laws; Mandatory sentences; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Law and legislation
Notes: "CRS report for Congress prepared for members and committees of Congress."
Table of contents: title: Federal cocaine sentencing disparity : sentencing guidelines, jurisprudence, and legislation / Brian T. Yeh; title: Federal mandatory minimum sentencing : the 18 U.S.C. 924(c) tack-on in cases involving drugs or violence / Charles Doyle; title: Federal mandatory minimum sentences: the safety valve and substantial assistance exceptions / Charles Doyle; title: Strike mandatory sentencing (18 U.S.C. 3559(c) : an overview / Charles Doyle; title: Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. 924(e)) : an overview / Charles Doyle; title: Drug offenses : maximum fines and terms of imprisonment for violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and related laws / Brian T. Yeh; title: Testimony of the Honorable Judge Julie E. Carnes, chair of the Criminal Law Committee on Behalf of the Judicial Conference, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "mandatory minimum sentences"; title: Statement of Julie Stewart, president, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on "mandatory minimums and unintended consequences"; title: Statement of Michael J. Sullivan, Partner, Ashcroft Sullivan, LLC, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "mandatory minimums and unintended consequences"; title: Statement of National Border Patrol Council of the American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "mandatory minimums and unintended consequences"; title: Statement of Grover G. Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "mandatory minimums and unintended consequences"; title: Statement of Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "unfairness in federal cocaine sentencing : is it time to crack the 100 to 1 disparity?"; title: Statement of Ricardo H. Hinojosa, acting chair, United States Sentencing Commission, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security; title: Testimony of Joseph I. Cassilly, state's attorney Hartford County, Bel Air, Maryland and president, National District Attorneys Association, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "restoring fairness to federal sentencing : addressing the crack-powder disparity"; title: Testimony of Willie M. Aikens, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "unfairness in federal cocaine sentencing : is it time to crack the 100 to 1 disparity?"; title: Statement of Bob Bushman, vice president, National Narcotic Officers' Associations' Coalition, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "unfairness in federal cocaine sentencing : is it time to crack the 100 to 1 disparity?"; title: Statement of Veronica F. Coleman-Davis, former United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "unfairness in federal cocaine sentencing : is it time to crack the 100 to 1 disparity?"; title: Testimony of Marc Mauer, executive director, the sentencing project, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on "unfairness in federal cocaine sentencing : is it time to crack the 100 to 1 disparity?".