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Holder to Federal Prosecutors: Stop Using Threat of 851 Enhancements to Coerce Pleas
Apparently U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s impending retirement from government service has not extinguished his desire to rein in over-zealous federal prosecutors. In a September 24, 2014 memo to federal prosecutors made public, Holder has instructed them to only utilize 851 sentencing enhancements in the instances where “unique facts and ...
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