Mark Bennett | January 16, 2009
Momentum is building in Texas to reduce possession of less than a gram of cocaine from a state jail felony (six months to two years in state jail, day-for-day) to a class A misdemeanor (up to a year in county jail, with time off for good conduct); 16 of 22 Harris County felony court judges [...]
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Mark Bennett | May 2, 2008
The Associate Press reports (H/T Judgment Day) that the feds prosecute more Hispanics than white people for powder cocaine trafficking. In a desperate bid to get more of a reaction than “Duh!”, the writer, Laura Jakes Jordan, tries to draw a meaningful connection between the feds’ prosecution statistics and the public perception that powder cocaine [...]
Category: cocaine, trafficking, Uncategorized |
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