This week, U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell said he had no choice but to follow prevailing sentencing guidelines for drug convictions when he imposed a 55-year sentence on a first-time 25-year-old offender who sold marijuana to a police informant in 2002. Cassell urged the defendant’s lawyer to appeal but it is unlikely an appeal would succeed.
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Newshawks: Federal Minimum Sentencing Guidelines
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