Government
Mar. 25, 2014
Proposed bill would lower sentence for selling crack
The measure would bring penalties for selling the drug in line with those for selling similar amounts of powder cocaine, continuing a trend of closing the sentencing disparity between the two forms of the drug.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A proposed state Senate bill would lower the sentence for selling crack cocaine to align it with sentences for selling powder cocaine.
"Same crime, same punishment is a basic principle of law in our democratic society," Sen. Holly Mitchell, who introduced SB 1010, said in a statement.
The federal government and states have also in recent years closed the disparity between sente...
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