These federal statutes mean the defendant must spend time behind bars as a sentence imposed by Congress. Under the CSA, there are minimum prison sentences for substantial amounts of drugs containing “a detectable amount” of heroin, cocaine, cocaine base, phencyclidine (PCP), lysergic acid (LSD...
President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced some of the disparities of the sentences imposed for possession of crack cocaine. Specifically, a first conviction for simple possession of crack cocaine is penalized in the same way as simple possession...
Defendant with multiple prior felony drug convictions arrested with several kilograms of cocaine on the table… NOT GUILTY Murder Defendant charged with shooting decedent in the presence of several hundred people in downtown Cincinnati’s Fountain Square. Before dying… ...
Defendant with multiple prior felony drug convictions arrested with several kilograms of cocaine on the table… NOT GUILTY Murder Defendant charged with shooting decedent in the presence of several hundred people in downtown Cincinnati’s Fountain Square. Before dying… ...
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), which reduced the penalties for crack cocaine offenses, is made retroactive, so that if a defendant was sentenced before the FSA, and the FSA would have reduced their sentence, he/she can get his/her sentence reduced in most cases. There are many ...
Schedule II drugs are those considered by the federal government to have a “high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence.” Methamphetamine, along with cocaine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fe...
To be classified under Schedule I, a drug: (i) must have a high potential for abuse; (ii) must have absolutely no medical use in treatment; and (iii) cannot be used or tested safely, even under strict medical supervision. The plaintiffs point out that the Federal Government knows that ...
He devoted the last 25 years of his life to blowing the whistle on perpetraitors, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, for pedophilia, human trafficking, cocaine and heroin black ops and more. When the 1947 National Security Act was invoked on Mark’s and my testimonyfor US Congress in 1995...