United States Supreme Court

In proceedings arising from the government's appeal of a sentence for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and powder cocaine, a circuit court's ruling reversing a mandatory minimum sentence is reversed where district courts are entitled to reject and vary categorically from the crack-cocaine Sentencing Guidelines based on a policy disagreement with those Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/21/2009
• Published 01/21/2009

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• United States Supreme Court

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