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8. plus it allows whites to get lesser sentences while blacks get longer sentences.

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 10:02 AM

Aug 2013

prosecutors can still choose to put the quantities in the indictment, and judges can still impose harsher sentences... selectively.

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