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New law could free 12K drug users
Politico ^ | 6/30/11 | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on 06/30/2011 3:15:03 PM PDT by Qbert

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"The law, which more closely aligns recommended sentences for crack to those for powder cocaine and which was signed last August, didn’t automatically apply to people already imprisoned on crack charges, but members of the commission thought it should."

Have to get those voters, anyway they can...

1 posted on 06/30/2011 3:15:06 PM PDT by Qbert
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See, the gubmint is creating new jobs. The need for crack dealers increases.


2 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:07 PM PDT by bgill
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More than 12,000 prisoners nationwide who have been convicted of felony crimes related to the possession, sale and trafficking of crack could have their sentences reduced in light of the decision, which piggybacks off the Fair Sentencing Act.

Seems pretty wide open to me.
3 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Soooo... No more prisoners ?

Got it...wink wink.


4 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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Good. Use those extra beds for illegals, identity theives, and Wall Street crooks.


5 posted on 06/30/2011 3:21:52 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Go Mariners! 2012!)
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Great. How many of those people were originally allowed to cop pleas to the possession charges to avoid the costs of trials of their related robbery/murder/rape charges?


6 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:05 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Waiting for Willie Horton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton


7 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:13 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Isn’t it the Amish who tend to use crack as opposed to powdered cocaine? Or is it Holder’s people?


8 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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Yes and more cops to stand around and scratch their ass at an investigation of you getting robbed are killed by one of the maggots trying to steal money to get high. That employees more grave diggers and undertakers and ambulance drivers and hospital staff.


9 posted on 06/30/2011 3:27:42 PM PDT by org.whodat
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I suppose ag assault, home invasion burglary and murder fall into the "related" crimes portion. Gots to have dat crack, know what I'm sayin. I'm assuming Holder will straighten all this out for us his people.
10 posted on 06/30/2011 3:29:18 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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“Great. How many of those people were originally allowed to cop pleas to the possession charges to avoid the costs of trials of their related robbery/murder/rape charges?”

Great question.


11 posted on 06/30/2011 3:32:00 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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They bring their habit to my AO Eric the Fake can pick up his peoples in a body bag.

Tired of criminals be they penalized or prostituted polidiots.


12 posted on 06/30/2011 3:42:14 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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Actually good. The sentencing disparity was racist anyway. Of course this disparity was asked for by the liberal politicians in charge of the inner cities (read: “black”) where crack use is prevalent.

Somehow, blacks still think liberals are their best friend when quite the opposite is true.


13 posted on 06/30/2011 3:49:09 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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One of the problems of allowing people to cop a plea to a drug crime rather than for what they really did is some do-gooder maniac will let them out of prison early.


14 posted on 06/30/2011 3:53:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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And somehow they care not a lick for the fact that crack is much more potent than cocaine, putting susceptible people at greater risk for addictions and heart attacks, etc.


15 posted on 06/30/2011 3:55:32 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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12K more thugs to join obama’s army.


16 posted on 06/30/2011 4:03:21 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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lol

great, this will do wonders for the unemployment rate!

the law of unintended consequences strikes the liberals again!


17 posted on 06/30/2011 4:06:49 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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lol

the disparity had nothing to do with race, it had to do with the dangerousness of the two. Crack is far more likely to kill you than powder.

18 posted on 06/30/2011 4:08:20 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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“great, this will do wonders for the unemployment rate!”

And they can compete for jobs with the other 40,000 prisoners that will be released soon from California prisons.


19 posted on 06/30/2011 4:11:13 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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“New law could free 12K drug users”

That’s great! More crackheads sneaking into the backyard to steal your shovels and garden tools. My wife caught one two weeks ago. By the time I got outside with Mr. Smith, the 50 IQ druggie was high-tailing it at about 80 mph through the bushes.

Then again, in this state you can’t ventilate a burglar for a misdemeanor. All I could’ve done is hop up and down like a madman, waved the pistol around and cracked fat welfare momma jokes.

Too many exacting laws in this state. We need some fuzzy and grey laws that lean heavy in the favor of homeowners who get their shovels stolen by bug-eyed freak cokeheads.


20 posted on 06/30/2011 4:16:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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