READ: Holder's Remarks at American Bar Association as Prepared for Delivery

READ: Holder's Remarks At American Bar Association As Prepared For Delivery

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And it's a privilege to join so many friends, colleagues, and leaders – including U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag – here in San Francisco for the ABA's 2013 Annual Meeting. I'd like to thank your Delegates for …
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Holder Decries 'Draconian Mandatory Minimum Sentences'

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"Our system is in too many ways broken," Holder told the American Bar Association at its annual meeting in San Francisco. "The course we are on is far from sustainable." Focusing in large part on what he referred to as the so-called war on drugs and …
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After pain pill crackdown, heroin use jumps

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According to a new report by the state's medical examiners, heroin continues to be the most lethal drug, which most often causes death. Drug treatment centers in the Bay Area are also seeing an increase in heroin users. "The overdose rate in heroin use …
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San Francisco: AG Eric Holder announces drug-sentencing reform

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SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors will no longer seek mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, part of a broad new effort to focus on violent crimes and national security while reducing the nation's gigantic prison population, U.S …
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