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Commission votes to recommend two legislative changes on trafficking mandatory minimums and coercion subdivisions
Summary
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission on May 8 unanimously recommended two changes for the legislative conference committee: shorten a proposed 120‑month drug‑trafficking mandatory minimum to 90 months and split a coercion/revenge-image offense into separate subdivisions for great bodily harm and death.
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission voted unanimously on May 8 to send two recommendations to the conference committee working on public-safety legislation.
Motion and vote: Commissioner Ladd moved that the commission recommend (1) changing the 120-month mandatory minimum in the proposed trafficking provision to 90 months and (2) requiring that the coercion/revenge-image offense list great bodily harm and death in separate, enumerated subdivisions so the…
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