Public Comment from March 18, 2015

March 2015
Public Comment Received on Proposed Amendments

(80 FR 2569)

Amendment No. 1 — Technical

U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders

Amendment No. 2 — "Single Sentence" Rule

U.S. Department of Justice
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Amendment No. 3 — Jointly Undertaken Criminal Activity

U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group, David Debold
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Prisology
Johnathan Ball, Attorney At Law, McAllen, TX
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Amendment No. 4 — Inflationary Adjustment

U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group, Eric Tirschwell
Probation Officers Advisory Group
American Bar Association
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Prisology
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Amendment No. 5 — Mitigating Role

U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group, David Debold
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Prisology
Johnathan Ball, Attorney At Law, McAllen, TX
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Amendment No. 6 — Flavored Drugs

U.S. Senators Charles E. Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Victims Advisory Group
Drug Policy Alliance
Fraternal Order of Police
Major Cities Chiefs Association
Marijuana Policy Project
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.
National District Attorneys Association
National HIDTA Directors Association
Smart Approaches to Marijuana
Washington County’s Sheriff’s Office
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Amendment No. 7 — Hydrocodone

U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Sharon Walsh, Ph.D., Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky

Amendment No. 8 — Economic Crime

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Public and Community Defenders
Practitioners Advisory Group, Eric Tirschwell
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Victims Advisory Group
American Bar Association
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
Prisology
Washington Legal Foundation
Frank O. Bowman III, Professor, University of Missouri School of Law
Joseph Grundfest, Professor, Stanford Law School
Edward S. Garcia, Jr., Attorney At Law, Virginia Beach, VA
Stephen R. LaCheen, Attorney At Law, Philadelphia, PA
Alexandrea L. Nelson, Law Student, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Sample of Citizens' Letters

Miscellaneous

Honorable D. Lowell Jensen, Retired U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
American Civil Liberties Union