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      "id": 103140,
      "date": "2003-04-17",
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      "title": "Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 107th Congress",
      "summary": "Federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes (mandatory minimums) demand that execution\nor\nincarceration follow criminal conviction. They cover drug dealing and using a gun to commit a\nfederal crime, among other crimes. They circumscribe judicial sentencing discretion. They have\nbeen criticized as unthinkingly harsh and incompatible with a rational sentencing guideline system;\nyet they have also been embraced as hallmarks of truth in sentencing and a certain means of\nincapacitating the criminally dangerous. Among the bills introduced in the 107th Congress, some\nwould have created new mandatory minimums, several would have enlarged existing mandatory\nminimums, others would have eliminated existing mandatory minimums, and some would have\nadjusted existing mandatory minimums in other ways. The only proposed mandatory minimum\nenacted came in the form of a piggyback statute which extends the pre-existing mandatory\nminimums applicable in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States to\nmisconduct committed in U.S. overseas facilities when an American is either the offender or the\nvictim, 18 U.S.C.  7(9). Revisions will occur as legislative activities during the remainder of the\n107th Congress warrant. \n  Related CRS Reports include  CRS Report RS21346(pdf) ,  Mandatory Minimum Sentences:\n Three\nStrikes in the Supreme Court -- Ewing v. California and Lockyer v. Andrade ; and  CRS Report RL30281(pdf) ,  Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: A List of Citations with\nCaptions,\nIntroductory Comments and Bibliography.",
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