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U.S. v. Vasquez, No. 09-cr-259 (JG) (E.D.N.Y.) (2010 WL 1257359) (March 30, 2010) (Judge John Gleeson)

Loaded on April 19, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists April 19, 2010
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Here Judge Gleeson bluntly laid bare some of the many evils of mandatory minimum sentences, particularly when used against low-level street drug-dealers for no apparent reason other than to pad the resumes of the prosecutors.

Reading Judge Gleeson’s Statement of Reasons for Sentence in this case, it is clear that ...

 

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