Legal Opinion
United States v. Jarreous Blewitt
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 17, 2013No. 12-5226, 12-5582PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J., joined by Martin, J.,
GILMAN, J. (pp. 494-98), delivered a separate dissent.
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
This is a crack cocaine case brought by two currently incarcerated defendants *484seeking retroactive relief from racially discriminatory mandatory minimum sentences imposed on them in 2005. The Fair Sentencing Act was passed in August 2010 to “restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing” laws that had unfairly impacted blacks for almost 25 years. The Fair Sentencing Act repealed portions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 that instituted a 100-to-l ratio between crack and powder cocaine, treating one gram of…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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