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The Supreme Court has decided "to review whether judges are required to impose dramatically longer sentences for crack cocaine than for cocaine powder, stepping into a long-running dispute with racial overtones." Article here.

In a ruling that could affect current state inmate sentences, the United States Supreme Court today found that California's determinant sentencing law violates a defendant's right to trial by jury. In Cunningham v. California , the Supreme Court repeated its prior finding that juries, not judges...