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Federal drug sentencing is simultaneously difficult and unfair. Roughly half of the federal prison population today are drug offenders—most serving mandatory minimum sentences.
Why so many offenders in one crime category?
The answer: the 1982 political declaration of…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In March of 2015, Neftali Avarez-Nunez (“Nunez”) was arrested in Catano, Puerto Rico. The arrest came after the police observed Nunez discarding a weapon outside a bar. The police retrieved and examined the handgun. It was loaded, fitted with an…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Sentencing is a vital component of the federal criminal trial process. It demands fairness, impartiality, and justification by the judge imposing the sentence following a determination of guilt.
84 Month Guideline Sentence
Billy J. Robinson, Jr. was a…
If you find yourself faced with a federal drug offense, you will have a difficult choice to make: stand trial or plead guilty.
The Government will make a plea proffer. Your attorney must listen and report that proffer to…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
The DEA said the capture of Joaquin “ El Chapo” Guzman-Loera was a victory for the rule of law as well as a victory for the Mexican people and government.
Transnational organized crime, violence, and drug trafficking have become…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
The state of New Hampshire is facing a drug epidemic crisis. No doubt about that. The epidemic is literally eating away at the social fabric of the Granite State. This past February NBC News reported that there were “roughly 400…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Manufacturing | Drug Trafficking
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it was a $35 million international drug ring that produced 9.5 tons of synthetic marijuana. Fourteen individuals were arrested last month in Houston in connection with the narcotics trafficking conspiracy, including a finance…
Category: Appeals | Drug Crime
The nation’s police seem to feel uncomfortable with the fact that they are now under constant scrutiny. The scrutiny they are under is not by their internal investigations departments or by their supervisory agencies, but by the public. We do…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
With many Texas towns located close to the Mexico border, drug trafficking is a recurring problem for state and federal law enforcement.
Last year the federal government charged Juan Pablo Contresas with being one of two leaders of a…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(a)(2) applies a base “base offense level” of 38 in certain drug cases when “the offense of conviction establishes that death or serious bodily injury resulted from the use of the substance …”
On March…
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