Drug Court Sympathetic to Affluent Frat Boy
July 2nd, 2009 by Russ
Christopher Duncan of Copiague, NY is thanking his lucky stars that he was born a white, rich, child. This week, his lucky accident of birth earned him a free pass in a federal drug court that fell all over itself to spare him the humiliation of going to prison for knowingly breaking the law.
A former University of Vermont student, Duncan, was running a cocaine trafficking operation out of his frat house back in 2007. Local authorities raided the house the week of graduation finding it full of drug paraphernalia, coke, and cash. In danger of receiving some serious jail time, the judge let him off with 100 hours of community service and two years of probation.
District Court judge William Sessions III saw fit to take it easy on the young cocaine trafficker because he was “a stupid kid” and, as he said to the defendant:
It shows your lack of serious involvement and your absolute naivete, frankly.
Speaking of naivete, one wonders why judges find their soft streaks only when faced with the Caucasian Children of the Rich? Couldn’t a little leniency be in order for the bus baggage-handler busted by the DEA for passing along small packages of contraband? What about the church minister that set up a little weed garden for some of his sick parishioners? Or any number of low level street dealers who were certainly naive, certainly bit players in their own little neighborhoods. Where is their leniency? Where is the compassion for them?
The simple truth is, what was going through this young man’s mind when he decided to play Blow Daddy with the local sorority girls, is the same exact thing that goes through the mind of every aspiring drug dealer, large or small. It’s a mixture of greed, opportunism, and indifference for his fellow man. Once this mindset is in place, it’s all just a question of scale; of entrepreneurship. And when the hammer comes down, it’s all a matter of skin tone.
83-Year Old Man Gets 20 Years for Distribution
April 7th, 2009 by Rick
Down south, in Rome, GA, at the U.S. District Court, 3 men have been sentenced to federal prison for their part in distributing hundreds of kilograms of marijuana in northwest Georgia and Tennessee. One of these men, 83-year-old Paul Faulkner, was given a virtual death sentence of 20 years.
Faulkner’s lawyer claimed that Faulkner was not a major part of the conspiracy and that 24 months would have been a more appropriate sentence due to his client’s age and health.
Judge Robert Vining said a mandatory minimum sentence was handed down to Faulkner because of his involvement in bootlegging in the 1940s and that he was last jailed on marijuana-related charges in 1999. Judge Vining said it was the most unreasonable sentence he has ever handed down, but he couldn’t go outside the statute. Execution of the sentence was stayed until August 1st.
December’s Dumbass of the Month
December 3rd, 2008 by PerryWhat did Vaswan Polty do to earn such a dubious distinction?
Polty was not only such a moron that he coaxed a 2-year old and 4-year old nephew to smoke weed, (yes, you read that right) he also filmed it with the kids’ father.
As icing on the cake, Polty left a tape of the incident lying around which was found while his house was searched in a separate robbery investigation. Talk about a stand up dude.
Once police brought the children into protective custody, it was discovered the youngsters had marijuana and cocaine traces in their systems.
This all went down in 2007, but since Polty just got sentenced for up to 7 years in prison on 2 counts of causing injury to a child, and 3 seperate burglary charges.
Don’t worry, the other idiot involved in this case, Demetris McCoy, got sentenced to 8 years. Good times all around, and welcome to the Dumbass tag on theFreshScent.
