Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dorsey v. United States, 567 U.S. ___ (2012), is a Supreme Court of the United States decision in which the Court held that reduced mandatory minimum sentences for "crack cocaine" under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 does apply to defendants who committed a crime before the Act went into effect but who were sentenced after that date. The Act's silence on how to apply its new rules, before the effective date or not, caused a split among the Justices on how to interpret its new lenient provisions. Specifically, the case centered around Edward Dorsey, a prior offender who had been convicted of possession before the new rules came into effect but was sentenced after the effective date.. }
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- Dorsey_v._United_States abstract "Dorsey v. United States, 567 U.S. ___ (2012), is a Supreme Court of the United States decision in which the Court held that reduced mandatory minimum sentences for "crack cocaine" under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 does apply to defendants who committed a crime before the Act went into effect but who were sentenced after that date. The Act's silence on how to apply its new rules, before the effective date or not, caused a split among the Justices on how to interpret its new lenient provisions. Specifically, the case centered around Edward Dorsey, a prior offender who had been convicted of possession before the new rules came into effect but was sentenced after the effective date.".