With the backing of the Delaware Department of Justice, state lawmakers have rolled out legislation to streamline drug laws and scrap harsher punishments that tend to disproportionately target residents of larger cities.
Introduced Thursday, SB 34 aims to simplify the calculus used to impose drug penalties by reducing the number of weight classes and aggravating factors currently considered under Delaware’s drug code. Among the proposed changes are measures that would eliminate proximity to parks and places of worship as factors that expose defendants to stiffer sentences.
