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Question
The 2011 U.S. Sentencing Commission report found thata. the number of offenses carrying a mandatory minimum sentence had halved between 1991 and 2010
b. One third of the convictions with a mandatory sentence involved drug trafficking
c. There are disparities in applying the mandatory minimums
d. a minority of federal judges thought mandatory sentences were "too high"
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