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Cocaine Sentencing Disparities May Change
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 13
The Sentencing Guidelines Com mission (SGC) is an independent body created by Congress in 1984 to reduce sentencing disparities in the federal court system. This has included creating sentencing guidelines which greatly restrict the discretion of judges in imposing sentences. In 1986 and 1988 congress passed laws mandating mandatory minimum ...
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U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Federal Legislation.
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