A sharply divided state Supreme Court has struck down the mandatory minimum sentencing scheme regarding drug-free school zones.
The high court’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Hopkins held that portions of the mandatory minimum sentencing scheme that had been invalidated by a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling could not be severed from the overall scheme, and therefore the sentencing scheme as a whole was unconstitutional.
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