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The Fair Sentencing Act of 2009… Equalizing Punishment for Crack and Powder Cocaine Offenses
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. New legislation has been introduced to Congress to equalize the sentencing for crack and cocaine drug offenses. Currently, there is a 100-1 sentencing disparitybetween convictions for offenses involing “crack...
Medical Marijuana Update… Fewer Arrests in the Future
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. Is medical marijuana legal now? Well, not exactly. While the legality of marijuana use is still a bit tricky – illegal under federal law, but legal in certain states – the Obama administration has dec...
Lawyer: State offers deal in Jimmy Smith drug case
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — An attorney for former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith says the state has made an offer to his client on felony drug charges. Attorney Brian Coughlin told Circuit Court Judge Linda McCallum on Wednesday a decisio...
Calif. pot dispensary owner given 1-year sentence
GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California medical marijuana dispensary owner was sentenced Thursday to a reduced term of a year and a day in prison in a closely watched case that could have implications in states where fe...
NFL files notice of appeal in Williamses case
STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The NFL filed notice Tuesday that it plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in the case of two Minnesota Vikings players facing suspensions over their positive tests for a banned dr...
Guilty plea in case of missing San Diego student
GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A sex offender pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter in the 2007 disappearance of a San Diego State University student and told the judge he dumped the 19-year-old’s body ...
Obama seeks to change crack sentences
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is asking Congress to close the big gap in prison sentences for dealing crack versus powdered cocaine, a law that critics say is unfair to blacks. Such sentencing reform efforts tend to focus on lowering t...
US to name ‘border czar’ to watch Mexican border
EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is naming a former federal prosecutor to the new post of “border czar” to oversee efforts to end drug-cartel violence along the U.S.-...
Killing of black man by police shakes La. town
MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer HOMER, La. (AP) — For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this little town as quiet as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same...
