By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas Man nicknamed “G-Bone” pleaded guilty Monday to shooting and wounding an ATF agent who had come to arrest him, authorities said. Gary Montgomery,39, who now faces up to 20 years in prison, also pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas to distributing crack cocaine and being…
This has long been one of the unfair disparities in sentencing. No question crack cocaine has plagued urban America and destroyed neighborhoods and lives. But should crack have ever been treated differently than powdered cocaine when it came to sentencing? By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Federal judges are beginning to…
BY JOHN F. TIMONEY Miami Police Chief For the Miami Herald MIAMI — Most people in the criminal-justice system are aware of a problem with the federal laws governing sentences for cocaine offenses — penalties for crack-cocaine offenses are much stiffer than sentences for powder cocaine. This undermines trust in the criminal-justice system, and it…
Ever since the crack cocaine epidemic surfaced in the 1980s, authorities have wrestled with it in the courts. Here’s how the latest battle is playing out in federal court. By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Michael D. Thompson, a former crack cocaine dealer, thought he deserved a break. Sentenced in 2000…
