The plaintiff, Fernando Zevallos, was born in Peru in 1957; and he was granted permanent residency status in the United States in 1994. In the early 1990s, Mr. Zevallos and his family launched Aero Continente, a Peruvian airline; and, as a result of the activities of that airline, he was ...

This is another of the legions of cases that highlight the blatant absurdity of some of our nation’s extreme mandatory minimum sentences. The Court succinctly summed up the plight of the defendant in this case in its two opening paragraphs:

“Edward Young received a mandatory fifteen-year prison sentence for the ...

In 2007, Dwayne Thompson, who was driving a pickup truck on an Interstate highway near Amarillo, TX, was stopped by a Texas State Trooper for driving at an excessive speed. During the stop, the Trooper discovered a quantity of marijuana and six kilos of cocaine. Thompson was charged locally with ...

We have often wondered how the Government gets away so easily with using so many aliases and nicknames of defendants in criminal cases - especially when the nicknames are so vivid that they absolutely and automatically convey the impression that the defendant has some sort of history or reputation for ...

The defendant in this case, Dennis Ray Howard, who was 41-years of age when he was sentenced in this case, was convicted at trial on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, phencyclidine (“PCP”), nine counts of distribution of PCP, and one ...