Legal Opinion
DePierre v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 9, 2011No. 09-1533PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sotomayor
At the time of petitioner’s conviction and sentence, federal law mandated a minimum 10-year sentence for persons convicted of certain drug offenses, 21 U. S. C. § 841(a), including those involving 50 grams or more of “a mixture or substance . . . which contains cocaine base,” § 841(b)(1)(A)(iii), and a minimum 5-year sentence for offenses involving 5 grams or more of the same, §841(b)(1)(B)(iii). This case requires us to decide whether the term “cocaine base” as used in this statute refers generally to cocaine in its chemically basic form or exclusively to what is colloquially known as “crack…
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