This episode will offer more highlights from the 2007 Justice at Stake Summer Workshop, featuring Nkechi Taifa, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society Policy Center. Mrs. Taifa's speech focused on the lack of judicial discretion in criminal cases involving mandatory minimum sentencing, particularly those involving crack/cocaine powder sentencing disparity, highlighted in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act. Her speech focuses on the new research in the field, as well as new breakthroughs underway to possibly end the disparities. This address is timely, as the United States Supreme Court on October 3rd, 2007 heard two cases involving drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing, Gall V. US and Kimbrough v. US.