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Newsbrief:
Last
Week's
Supreme
Court
Ruling
Pays
Off
for
New
York
Woman
1/21/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/371/luckybreak.shtml
Legal scholars remain divided
on the ultimate impact of last week's Supreme Court decision in the Booker
and Fan Fan cases, where the court held that mandatory federal sentencing
guidelines were unconstitutional because judges -- not juries -- found
facts that could increase sentences beyond statutory guidelines.
But for one New York woman, there is little to debate.
According to WSTM in Niagara
County, New York, Jamie Lynn Chilberg, 21, of Youngstown would have faced
a minimum of two years in prison under the mandatory guidelines for attempting
to smuggle nearly one thousand Ecstasy tablets across the US-Canada border.
Instead, a judge in Buffalo sentenced to one day in jail -- the amount
of time she spent behind bars after being arrested.
The sentencing judge, who
exercised his new freedom under last week's ruling, said sending the young
woman to prison for two years would serve no purpose. Chilberg had
entered a drug treatment program and "turned her life around," he noted.
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Issue #371
-- 1/21/05
Editorial:
Unfortunate
Bedfellows
|
Following
Oklahoma's
Lead,
States
Target
Cold
Remedies
in
Fight
Against
Methamphetamine
|
Mexican
Stand-Off:
Government
Sends
in
Tanks,
Soldiers
in
Effort
to
Retake
Prisons
from
Narcos
|
Blogging:
A
Stunning
Admission
by
Baltimore
Police
Officials,
and
More
|
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
German
Supreme
Court
Rejects
"Zero
Tolerance"
Drugged
Driving
Law
in
Cannabis
Case |
Newsbrief:
Mass
Arrests
of
Drug
Users
in
Iran
|
Newsbrief:
Marijuana
Bills
Filed
--
Medical
Marijuana
in
New
Jersey,
Decriminalization
in
New
Hampshire
|
Newsbrief:
Resistance
to
Methadone
Clinics
Rears
Head
in
Virginia,
Washington
State
|
Newsbrief:
King
County
Bar
Association
(Seattle)
Calls
for
Legal,
Regulated
Drug
Markets
|
Newsbrief:
Texas
Bill
Would
Ban
Drug
Offenders
from
Entering
Certain
San
Antonio
Neighborhoods
|
Newsbrief:
Last
Week's
Supreme
Court
Ruling
Pays
Off
for
New
York
Woman
|
Newsbrief:
Martha
Stewart,
Prisoner
Advocate
|
Newsbrief:
MPP
Assists
Poor
Montana
Medical
Marijuana
Patients
|
Newsbrief:
Maine
Activist
Providing
Medical
Marijuana
Indicted
for
Trafficking
and
Cultivation
|
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Week
in
History
|
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Reformer's
Calendar
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