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Judge Gertner assails quantity-based drug guidelines

By Douglas A. Berman

District Judge Nancy Gertner has a new opinion which takes on and takes down the notion that drug quantities provide a sound basis for sentencing levels.   Here are parts of the start of Judge Gertner's work in US v. Cabrera, No. 06cr10343-NG (D. Mass. July 25, 2008) (available for download below):Oscar Cabrera ("Cabrera") was, at most, a delivery man caught in a government sting. He hardly fits the profile of a major drug dealer.  He was told -- apparently at the last m read more

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).