Courts Continue to Uphold Crack Cocaine Disparity

From Sentencing Law and Policy:

In a brief per curiam opinion today in US v. Leatch, No. 06-10526 (5th Cir. Mar. 22, 2007) (available here), the Fifth Circuit follows the misguided herd of other circuits on post-Booker crack sentencing by holding that "a sentencing court may not deviate from the 100:1 crack-powder ratio based solely upon its belief that the policies underpinning that sentencing regime are misguided or unfair."   I have explained at length in many prior posts (see, e.g., here and here) why I view this kind of ruling seems so substantively misguided.

Read the whole post here.