Don't Appeal Crack Fairness Ruling,

--Don't Appeal Crack Fairness Ruling,
FAMM President Julie Stewart strongly urged the U.S. Department of Justice to let stand today’s decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in which a majority ruled that the Fair Sentencing Act should be applied retroactively. The case is US v. Blewett, No. 12-5226 (6th Cir. May 17, 2013). The Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), enacted in 2010, reduced the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine offenses from 100:1 to 18:1, but only for those sentenced after the law took effect. In Blewett, a majority ruled that applying the discriminatory and congressionally-repudiated harsher penalties to those sentenced before the FSA became law violates the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws,