United States v. Tabor

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KOPF, District Judge.

“The bottom line is that poor people are the ones that use crack cocaine and mostly minorities.” 1

For more than a decade, I have been deeply troubled by, and have written critically about, the crack cocaine Guidelines. See, e.g., United States v. McMurray, 833 F.Supp. 1454 (D.Neb.1993). For example, in McMurray, after examining the history of Congress’ adoption of the crack cocaine penalty structure, I lamented, but imposed, the mandatory life sentence called for by application of the crack Guidelines on Stephanie Lomax, who is now known as Hamedah Ali…