A form of unequal treatment, in the form of a prison sentence, between similar crimes and similar convicted persons.
What is sentencing disparity
100
A reform act which increases the amount of cocaine or cocaine base mixture needed to be convicted on trafficking charges and increasing the monetary fines associated with that crime.
What is Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
100
A case that upholds a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law is not cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Ewing v. California
200
An individual judge makes inconsistent sentencing decisions.
What is intrajudge disparity
200
Fair Sentencing Act eliminates the disparity for this cocaine derivative.
What is crack cocaine
200
Ewing v. California does not pose a challenge to this amendment.
What is the 8th Amendment
300
The most common form of sentencing disparity.
What is racial disparity
300
These factors are included in the Fair Sentencing Act
What are mitigating factors
300
This legal standard does not have to apply to non-capital sentences.