Legal Opinion
United States v. Shakiru Adu, A/K/A Alhaji Shakiru
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1996No. 95-1488PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
Early in this decade, Congress became concerned that the inflexibility of statutory mandatory minimum sentences was resulting in unjust punishments in some cases. Congress was particularly concerned with the inability of federal trial courts to consider mitigating factors to impose proportionally lower sentences on the least culpable participants in multi-defendant drug trafficking cases. See H.R.Rep. No. 103-460, 103d Cong., 2d Sess., reprinted in 1994 WL 107571 (Leg.Hist.), at 4-5 (1994). After studying the matter, Congress included a “safety valve” provision in the…
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