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BREAKING: Early results show Austin voters back Proposition A to end low-level marijuana enforcement, no-knock warrants
Austin police currently do not enforce low-level marijuana possession and have limited no-knock warrant policies. (Courtesy Adobe Stock) With early voting results in, Austin’s Proposition A appears headed for passage and would end both low-level marijuana enforcement and the use of no-knock warrants by police in the city. Based on initial tallies from the nine-day …
Supreme Court won’t extend reduced charges to low-level crack cocaine offenders
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a revised federal law does not allow prison inmates to seek a reduction in their sentences for possessing small amounts of crack cocaine. The court said the wording of one of the rare bipartisan achievements of the Trump administration, the First Step Act, which made sweeping changes to the …
