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Kaseem Pennington
Mar 20, 2008, 07:13 AM
I was sentenced and finished a ten year term with five years probation, new laws have went into effect and I want to know will those already free on probation for 5 or 7 years be effected as well.

excon
Mar 20, 2008, 07:17 AM
Hello K:

No new laws went into effect. The US Sentencing Commission just lowered the guidelines for crack sentences to equate more with powdered cocaine sentences.

I doubt very seriously whether it will effect anybody on probation. However, why don't you run it by a criminal attorney?

Exco