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Government

May 16, 2007

Panel Trashes Sentence Ratio For Cocaine

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Tuesday urged Congress to make dramatic changes to sentencing guidelines for cocaine-related offenses.

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Tuesday urged Congress to make dramatic changes to sentencing guidelines for cocaine-related offenses.
      This is the fourth time during the past 12 years that the commission has asked Congress to address the disparity between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

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