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Justices Press DOJ Over 180 In Crack Case By Jimmy Hoover | May 4, 2021, 7:04 PM EDT The Biden administration's 180-degree turn in a case about crack sentencing disparities appears to have caught several U.S. Supreme Court justices off guard, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressing a government attorney during oral arguments Tuesday to explain the Department of Justice's process for changing positions. In the case Terry v. U.S. before the Supreme Court, the Biden administration abandoned the Trump administration's argument that certain people s...

Supreme Court Weighs Crack Cocaine Sentencing Disparity at 11:57 am NPR The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case involving sentencing disparities between people found guilty of possessing crack versus powdered forms of cocaine, and whether recent changes in federal law should apply retroactively to those given long prison terms for small amounts of crack. The case stems from changes to the 1986 Anti Drug Abuse Act, which put in place sentences for crack cocaine possession 100 times more severe than for the powered form of the drug. The disparity was seen by m...

Crack cocaine felon seeks resentencing at Supreme Court after First Step Act Follow Us Question of the Day       By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 4, 2021 The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed whether low-level crack cocaine offenders who have already spent a decade in prison should get a chance for reduced sentences under former President Donald Trump’s First Step Act, which strove to fix racial disparities in the sentencing of Black defendants. The lawsuit was brought by Tarahrick Terr...

U.S. Supreme Court skeptical of expanding crack cocaine reforms Reuters | May 04, 2021 08:51 PM EDT People walking a dog greet police officers and their dog outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S (Photo : REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo) U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical that low-level crack cocaine offenders can benefit under a 2018 federal law that reduced certain prison sentences in part to address racial disparities detrimental to Black defendants. The nine justices heard their final arguments of the court's nine-month term that began last Octob...

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers) WASHINGTON (CN) — In its last hearing of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over whether people jailed for possession of small amounts of crack cocaine are eligible for a sentencing reduction. The justices seemed concerned that allowing those offenders to apply for reduced sentences would open the floodgates for other drug offenders to also seek shorter sentences. Tarahrick Terry was caught with less than four grams of crack cocaine in Florida in 2008, which was enough of the narcotic to add a distributional ...