On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases (Dorsey v. United States and Hill v. United States) that will decide what to do with so-called “pipeline” defendants: federal crack offenders who committed their crimes before the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 was passed, but were sentenced for those crimes after the Act had gone into effect. What law should they be sentenced under: old 100-to-1 crack disparity law, or the Act’s new 18-to-1 ratio?
FAMM joined the ACLU in filing an amicus brief in the cases and posted this summary of the dispute. The Court will issue its decisions on the cases by June 2012.
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