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Repealing Delaware's Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Laws

Supporters

Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws: Widely Opposed

Members of Delaware's Judicial and Legal Community:

Supreme Court Justice and former Superior Court President Judge Henry duPont Ridgely
Superior Court Judge and former Chairman of the Sentencing Accountability Commission (SENTAC), Richard S. Gebelein
Superior Court Judges Susan Del Pesco and Jan R. Jurden
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey
Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph T. Walsh
Former Superior Court Judges Vincent A. Bifferato, Sr. and Joshua W. Martin, III
The Delaware State Bar Association and 17 of its former presidents
Delaware State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers

At the national level, supporters include:

Four U.S. Supreme Court justices, including former Chief Justice Rehnquist
The U.S. Sentencing Commission
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, III (served under President Reagan)
Each of the twelve United States Circuit Courts of Appeals
The Judicial Conference of the United States
The American Bar Association
Regents of the American College of Trial Lawyers
U.S. Conference of Mayors

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Law Enforcement Officials:

Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh (who has also served as a Special Agent of the FBI, an Assistant United States Attorney and a United States District Judge)
Former Superintendent of State Police Dan Simpson
Former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey
The National Association of Veteran Police Officers

The Faith Community:

Bishop, Delaware-Maryland Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

Catholic Diocese of Wilmington

Churches Take A Corner

Episcopal Church Diocese of Delaware

Interdenominational Ministers' Action Council (I.M.A.C.)

Lutheran Office on Public Policy, Delaware

Peninsula Delaware Conference of the United Methodist Church

Prison Fellowship Ministries®

Prison Ministries of Delaware

First Unitarian Society, Social Justice Working Group, Wilmington, DE

A. Philip Randolph Institute

Addictions Coalition of Delaware

A.F.L-C.I.O

AFSCME, Delaware Public Employees Council 81

AIDS Delaware

American Association of University Women of Delaware (AAUW)

American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware (ACLU)

CHILD, Inc.

Children and Families First

Common Cause

Delaware A.C.O.R.N.

Delaware Association of Rehabilitation Facilities

Delaware Center for Justice, Inc.

Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Delaware Coalition for Human Rights

Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council

Delaware NAACP

Delaware Psychological Association

Delaware Trial Lawyers Association

Grassroots Citizens for Children

H.E.R.O.I.N. Hurts, Inc.

Latin American Community Center

League of Women Voters, Delaware

Libertarian Party of Delaware

Mental Health Association

Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Delaware

National Association of Social Workers, Delaware Chapter

National Conference for Community and Justice, Delaware

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