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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (13)	11/26/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (1) of 23

A. J. if you use the link provided by August you can go to the description of benificaries and learn about mandatory minimums or more descriptively Family's against mandatory minimum sentencing I should point out the Rex Foundation dead.net appears to be associated with Gerry Garcia (deceased) of the Grateful Dead and therein may lie the interest in mandatory minimums particularly as applied to drug sentencing etc.... Mad2 Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is a national organization working to reform sentencing laws. Current laws force judges to sentence an individual based solely on the weight of the drug, or the presense of a firearm, without regard to any other factor, including the culpability of the offender. Inflexible sentencing is responsible for the unprecedented incarceration of nonviolent, first-time drug offenders who now make up 62 percent of the federal prison population. Their mandatory minimum sentences range from five to ten years, without parole, and many are serving longer. In 1993 FAMM testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission arguing that the carrier (i.e. sugar cube, blotter paper) should not be included in determining the total weight of the drug for sentencing because it caused widely disparate sentences for defendants arrested with the same number of doses of LSD. The U.S. Sentencing Commission agreed with FAMM and decided to establish a standard weight for each dose of LSD. The Commission also made their ruling retroactive; FAMM hopes that nearly half of the 500 people serving LSD sentences in the federal system will receive reduced sentences.

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