Two London Drug Pushers Jailed After Being Caught Ready to Deal in Basingstoke

Two London drug pushers jailed after being caught ready to deal in Basingstoke

Filed under: Cocaine Vs Crack Sentencing

The court head Tutonda was on licence for a previous conviction for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine in Ipswich at the time of the offences, having been sentenced to three years in jail in March 2011. Adam Hiddleston, his defence lawyer, said he … Read more on Basingstoke Gazette

Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays

Filed under: Cocaine Vs Crack Sentencing

He told his client's family that the prosecutors could not find their eyewitness, a crack cocaine user, from the shooting four years earlier. There were smiles all around. A few feet away, the prosecutor knew his case was collapsing. He paced back and … Read more on New York Times

Sister escaped 'Trigger Town,' but bleak fate snared brother

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Nearly two decades after circumstances set their lives on dramatically different trajectories, Jamila Pleas recently met with her younger brother at a federal jail in downtown Chicago as he awaited sentencing for running a menacing crack-cocaine … Read more on Chicago Tribune