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The duties of defense counsel and prosecution as to the representation of defendants being resentenced following changes from the U.S. Sentencing Commission retroactively reducing the base offense level for federal crack cocaine convictions, effective March 3, 2008.
Coalition letter to members of the Senate regarding the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses and the plan to eliminate them as addressed in the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act (S. 79/H.R. 1693, 2021).
Coalition letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leadership and Congressional leadership regarding the sentencing and racial disparities between crack and powder cocaine offenses, as addressed in the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act (S. 79 / H.R. 1693, 2021).
President Carmen Hernandez's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding federal cocaine sentencing laws, and the crack v. powder disparity.
President John Wesley Hall's statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs regarding fair sentencing and the crack-powder cocaine disparity.
Treasurer William Moffitt's statement to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime regarding the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
Brief Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in support of defendants-appellants.
