USSC sets agenda for crack amendment retroactivity hearing

Over at its website, the US Sentencing Commission has posted this planned agenda for the public hearing scheduled for November 13 at Georgetown University Law Center concerning whether its amendments reducing the crack guidelines should be applied retroactively to previously sentenced defendants.  The agenda suggests that this USSChearing should be a quite an event, with 18 speakers scheduled to speak (most of whom, I believe, will be advocating retroactivity).

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• Judicial Conference urges retroactivity of new crack guidelines
• DOJ and FPD advocacy to the USSC about crack amendment retroactivity
• Is there any principled basis for DOJ opposition to the crack amendment being retroactive?
• The Sentencing Project urges retroactivity of USSC crack amendment
• Debate over retroactive application of new crack guidelines
• USSC analysis on potential crack amendment retroactivity impact
• ABA makes pitch for USSC crack amendments to be made retroactive
• Latest FSR issue covers crack sentencing