Federal sentencing guidelines were adjusted in 2007 and 2008 to reduce the impact of a highly criticized source of racial disparities in prison sentences for offenders convicted of offenses related to:
A. assault
B. murder
C. rape
D. cocaine
E. heroin
Answer: D
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