Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
Amicus Curiae
Mary Price, Counsel of Record Families Against MandatoryMinimums Foundation, founded in 1991, is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organizationwith 13,000 members. Its primary mission is to promote fair and proportionatesentencing policies and to challenge inflexible and excessive penaltiesrequired by mandatory sentencing laws. Mary Price is the general counsel andvice president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation. The followingis excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brieffor the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 13, 2007. PetitionerLarry Begay is a middle-aged Navajo. He has a serious drinking problem, as hisdriving record attests. Yet he has never been convicted of…
