The 2011 U.S.Sentencing Commission Report Found That

question 8

Multiple Choice

The 2011 U.S.Sentencing Commission report found that

• A) the number of offenses carrying a mandatory minimum sentence had halved between 1991 and 2010
• B) One third of the convictions with a mandatory sentence involved drug trafficking
• C) There are disparities in applying the mandatory minimums
• D) a minority of federal judges thought mandatory sentences were "too high"

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