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... Views from the Sentencing Commission Statement of Vice-Chair JohnR. Steer on Drug Sentencing Policy and Trends before the House Governmental Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources May 11, 2000 Editors' Note: On May u, 2000, theHouse of Representa tivews...

...PEW Public Safety Performance Project © The Ohio State University Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return: Penalty Increases Enacted in 1980s and 1990s Have Not Reduced Drug Use or Recidivism PEW PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp...

... © The Ohio State University U.S. Sentencing Commission Requests for Comment on Drug Sentencing Guidelines, January 2002 EditorÕs Note: In January 2002, the Sente ncing Commis sion announce d its inte ntion to begin a longterm reassessment of a variety of is sues relating to fe deral drug...

... © The Ohio State University 2002 Amendments to Federal Drug Sentencing Guidelines EditorÕs Note: The result of the de bate reßected in the preceding pages was the following set of guideline amendments passed by the U.S. Sentencing Commis sion on May 1, 2002. In the end, the Commis sion...

... © The Ohio State University The Dangerous Myths of Drug Sentencing Reform NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS Woodbridge, VA July 2015 Preface The National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys is a professional association comprised of career federal...

...Jack B. Weinstein; Fred A. Bernstein © The Ohio State University The Denigration of Mens Rea in Drug Sentencing Originally published in Vol. 7, No. 3 (1994) of Federal Sentencing Reporter JACK B. WEINSTEIN Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York FRED...

...Douglas A. Berman; Steven L. Chanenson EDITORS OBSERVATIONS Learning from Recent State Drug Sentencing Reform Efforts DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Co-Managing Editor; Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law STEVEN L. CHANENSON FSR Co-Managing...

...Sara Andrews Criminal Justice and Drug Sentencing Reform in Ohio after Issue 1 Drug sentencing reform and criminal justice policymaking in Ohio feels like Groundhog Day,1 and this piece explains why by delving into the details of Issue 12 in 2018, examining its similarity with, ironically enough...

... that are routinely encountered in federal drug cases. These disciplines support individualized sentencing by shedding new light on the nature of inhibitory control, the reasonable expectations for relapse, and the distinctions that can be drawn based on science between different treatment interventions...

...Hon. Jack B. Weinstein; Fred A. Bernstein © The Ohio State University The Denigration of Mens Rea in Drug Sentencing HON. JACK B. WEINSTEIN U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York FRED A. BERNSTEIN Law clerk to Judge Weinstein As part of this Issue dedicated to the Honorable...

...Families Against Mandatory Minimums © The Ohio State University The Dangerous Myths of NAAUSA: A Response to the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attroneys Paper Titled The Dangerous Myths of Drug Sentencing Reform FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS JULY 27, 2015 Federal Sentencing...

... © The Ohio State University The Dangerous Myths of Drug Sentencing Reform A Response to FAMM Introduction The fundamental point in the NAAUSA white paper titled The Dangerous Myths of Drug Sentencing Reform (hereinafter, the Myths paper)1 is that the federal criminal justice system...

...Wade Henderson Statement of Wade Henderson: Drug Sentencing Practices and Issues On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, I am pleased to submit the following statement to the Inter-American...

...Judge Jack B. Weinstein; Fred A. Bernstein © The Ohio State University The Denigration of Mens Rea in Drug Sentencing JUDGE JACK B. WEINSTEIN U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York FRED A. BERNSTEIN Law clerk to Judge Weinstein Mens rea, a principle central to our criminal...

...Paula Kautt © The Ohio State University Differential Usage of Guideline Standards by Defendant Race and Gender in Federal Drug Sentences: Fact or Fiction? A number of recent statistical studies from social science suggest that sentencing outcomes for federal drug offenses vary signiÞcantly...

...Mark Osler © The Ohio State University More Than Numbers: A Proposal for Rational Drug Sentences Originally published in Vol. 19, No. 5 (2007) of Federal Sentencing Reporter With the United States Sentencing Commission seriously challenging crack sentences in a recent report and the Department...

...Sarah Brady Siff Abstract The early history of drug sentences in California provides a quintessential example of structural racism in law. The demands of white voters to escalate penalties for drug crimes followed a pattern of collective myth making and value signaling that insisted opiates...

...Mark Osler © The Ohio State University More Than Numbers: A Proposal for Rational Drug Sentences MARK OSLER Professor, Baylor Law School With the United States Sentencing Commission seriously challenging crack sentences in a recent report and the Department of Justice calling for a thorough...

...—at least with federal drug trafficking offenses—that the Commission did not fulfill that directive. The magnitude of that failure (coupled with some of Congress’s own misguided decisions) has previously been highlighted by the evolution of federal crack sentencing policies, the Fair Sentencing Act...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS So Much Still to Understand about the Drug War s Sentencing Offensive DOUGLAS A. BERMAN This Issue of FSR emerges from a call for papers in conjunction with a conference on Understanding Drug Sentencing and Its Contributions...