Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 5, 2007
Sentencing Reductions May Create Administrative Headaches
Forum Column - By Michael J. Raphael - An obscure decision from the 9th Circuit could make the retroactive application of reduced sentences for crack into a bureaucratic nightmare.
By Michael J. Raphael
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is considering making its new, more lenient crack cocaine guidelines retroactive to prisoners, a change that would shorten the sentences of more in-custody criminals than any such decision to date. Some of the concern about the impact of the retroactivity proposal centers on the effect of an obscure 9th Circuit decision from last January.
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