Federal Judge Defies Sentencing Scheme That Treats Low-Level Drug Offenders Like Kingpins

Federal Judge Defies Sentencing Scheme That Treats Low-Level Drug Offenders Like Kingpins: pA tough-on-crime prosecutor turned federal judge who last year blasted prosecutors’ abuse of draconian mandatory minimum sentences has now issued a damning judicial indictment of another aspect of the harsh U.S. drug sentencing scheme. In an opinion declining to rely upon federal drug sentence guidelines, U.S. District Judge John Gleeson calls the guidelines for drug [...]/p