Mandatory Drug Sentences Can Give Prosecutors Extraordinary Unjust Leverage

Published January 8, 2013

Mandatory drug sentences can give prosecutors extraordinary unjust leverage

Filed under: Drug Use Chicago

The penalty seems unduly severe, especially because his business openly supplied marijuana to patients who were allowed to use it under state law. Yet five years is a cakewalk compared to the sentence Williams originally faced, which would have kept …
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Rapper 'Drilla Boy Phatts' Gunned Down

Filed under: Drug Use Chicago

GRAND CROSSING — In his videos made as "Drilla Boy Phatts," Vincent Fitts would rap about “gang member stuff, drugs, being in the streets,” said his sister, Lakia Fitts, 26. “He rapped about his kids and about his mother,” she added. In a music video …
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DuPage DUI Arrests, Jan. 6

Filed under: Drug Use Chicago

31: Miroslaw Wytrwal, 47, of the 0-100 block of Horseshoe Lane, Lemont, was charged with aggravated DUI after the driver, whose license is suspended, appeared to be under the influence during a traffic stop for improper lane use near the intersection …
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