Excited for start to Season Three of “Drugs on the Docket” podcast

Around this time two years ago in this post, I flagged that the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at The Ohio State University had just released Season One of a new podcast, “Drugs on the Docket.”  All six full episodes of this first season, each running under an hour, were released at once (and are all still available YouTube, along with six bonus mini-episodes released as updates to the first season episodes).  Similarly, around this time last year, as highlighed in this post, DEPC released Season Two of “Drugs on the Docket” and those are also still available via YouTube.

I am pleased to note that the DEPC team has been hard at work putting together Season Three of “Drugs on the Docket,” with the first espisode having been released last week.  This season the plan is to release new episodes roughly once a month, and here is how the first episode of Season Three is described on this podcast webpage: 

In the first episode of Season 3, returning guests Doug Passon and Mark Allenbaugh join hosts Hannah Miller and Douglas Berman to examine the legacy of United States v. Booker, the landmark Supreme Court case that 20 years ago transformed the federal sentencing guidelines from mandatory to advisory.  They discuss the impact of Booker on judicial discretion, federal drug sentencing, and legislative action to amend the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s sentencing guidelines.  The episode also touches on the February 5th Justice Department Memos from Attorney General Pam Bondi and their possible impact on the number and length of criminal drug sentences, as well as what, if any, influence an Obama-era clemency project might have on the current administration’s Office of the Pardon Attorney in light of a Bureau of Prisons capacity crisis.

Passon is a criminal defense lawyer of over twenty-five years, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and host of the Set for Sentencing podcast.  Allenbaugh is an attorney and entrepreneur with nationally-recognized expertise in federal sentencing, law, policy, and practice, and is a co-founder of Sentencing Stats, LLC.

Check it out!