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Alice Marie Johnson

Women and Crime

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The Importance of Advisory Sentence Guidelines in the US

Reagan was the one who took this war to the next level and made it a full on war on poor inner city minority based communities. But luckily, at least for the federal system, there was some easing up on these harsh penalties in the US versus Booker in 2005. Unfortunately, Booker was not retroactive. So it didn't apply to Alice's case. Had she been charged after the Booker case, then there would have been a vastly different outcome in her situation.

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