Justices will weigh district courts’ discretion under major 2018 sentencing-reform law
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 19, 2022
Last year, the Supreme Court trimmed the scope of that law, unanimously ruling that one of its reforms does not apply to certain low-level crack-cocaine offenders. Some courts look solely at the revised statutory penalties for crack cocaine to decide whether a new sentence is warranted. The justices will now decide which factors count.
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