Mandatory Minimums in the Federal System: Turning a Blind Eye.... Mary Price.
by Price, Mary; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 73Institutions. Publisher: Human Rights, 2004ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): American Bar Association | Criminal justice -- Administration of | Equality before the law | Federal courts | Judicial discretion | Mandatory sentences | U.S. Sentencing Commission | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 1994DDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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