Price, Mary,
Mandatory Minimums in the Federal System: Turning a Blind Eye.... Mary Price. - Human Rights, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 73, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Mandatory Minimums in the Federal System: Turning a Blind Eye..., Winter 2004; pp. 8-10.
"In his August 2003 speech at the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy urged the association to speak out against mandatory minimums. His request was timely--Congress had just added new mandatory minimums to the criminal code, and others were in the works. Many observers warned that the federal sentencing guidelines soon might be little more than mandatory minimums, replete with the terrible inequities and disparities that characterize them." (HUMAN RIGHTS) This article examines opposition to mandatory minimums in the federal justice system.
1522-3256;
American Bar Association
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 1994
Criminal justice--Administration of
Equality before the law
Federal courts
Judicial discretion
Mandatory sentences
AC1.S5
050
Mandatory Minimums in the Federal System: Turning a Blind Eye.... Mary Price. - Human Rights, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 73, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Mandatory Minimums in the Federal System: Turning a Blind Eye..., Winter 2004; pp. 8-10.
"In his August 2003 speech at the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy urged the association to speak out against mandatory minimums. His request was timely--Congress had just added new mandatory minimums to the criminal code, and others were in the works. Many observers warned that the federal sentencing guidelines soon might be little more than mandatory minimums, replete with the terrible inequities and disparities that characterize them." (HUMAN RIGHTS) This article examines opposition to mandatory minimums in the federal justice system.
1522-3256;
American Bar Association
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 1994
Criminal justice--Administration of
Equality before the law
Federal courts
Judicial discretion
Mandatory sentences
AC1.S5
050