Criminal defense
Proportionality vs. Mandatory Minimums: A Transatlantic Comparison of Drug Sentencing
On a rainy night in Berlin, a twenty-seven-year-old first-time offender was hauled into a courtroom, his fate hanging on a single kilogram of cocaine. Across the Atlantic, in a Manhattan federal courthouse, a similarly situated defendant faced a fifteen-year mandatory minimum for the same amount of the drug. The two