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Noting how carceral craziness and foolhardy finality fixations result in cases like Tarahrick Terry s
As highlighted in this post following this past week s SCOTUS oral argument, the questions from the Justices strongly suggest that the Supreme Court will soon rule that Tarahrick Terry is not entitled to seek a resentencing under the FIRST STEP Act provision making the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive. Over at SCOTUSblog, Ekow Yankah has this effective review of the
Terry argument which spotlights a portion I found especially notable toward the end:
One dissonant note came late in the morning, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh embarked on an extended exchange with Mortara. Rather than a sharp set of questions, Kavanaugh ruminated on, among other things, the history that led to the sentencing regime Congress sought to fix. He recalled the 1986 death of college-basketball star Len Bias from a cocaine overdose that shocked the nation and brought cocaine use squarely into the spotlig
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