Criminal
Jul. 19, 2002
Jurist's Inscrutable Arithmetic to Increase Sentences Doesn't Pass Muster
Column by Garry Abrams - While somewhere there may live an alchemist who can transform 71 grams of meth into 151 grams of meth, a federal district judge can't. That is the scientific opinion of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which last week vacated and remanded for resentencing the cases of four Mexican Mafia members who had pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
While somewhere there may live an alchemist who can transform 71 grams of meth into 151 grams of meth, a federal district judge can't.
That is the scientific opinion of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which last week vacated and remanded for...
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