Posted by
J. Laurenz Lee on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:16:31 PM
Good news from the SCOTUS. The court ruled 7-2 (Alito and Thomas dissented) in Kimbrough v. U.S. and Gall v. U.S. that judges may issue sentences that are lower than the ones advised by Federal Sentencing Guidelines based on the unreasonableness of the guideline. It is a small step, but an important one, toward the end of coke/crack disparity. The disparity is surely outdated and whatsoever unjustifiable.
For more detailed coverage, Reason Magazine's Jacob Sullum did a decent job,
here.