Injustice:
Life for first time non violent offense
Vs
Serial felon being let out due to “bail reform” to reoffend at leisure while the above sap continues to rot in prison?
Meanwhile, ANTIFA BLM rioters, looters, and killers are routinely being let off soft free.
[Injustice:
Life for first time non violent offense
Vs
Serial felon being let out due to “bail reform” to reoffend at leisure while the above sap continues to rot in prison?]
During an investigation of two crack houses in Gary, Indiana, a law enforcement task force learned that a man named Warren Moore was a mid-level dealer of crack cocaine. Moore turned out to be a relatively minor player in a larger drug distribution ring. Law enforcement arrested him on April 20, 2004 and convinced him to become a government informant. As an informant, Moore made a controlled purchase of crack cocaine from Erbey Solis on August 31, 2004, after which Solis was arrested, and he in turn also agreed to become a government informant.
The investigation into Moore revealed that appellant Tanner was a high-level drug dealer, and Solis agreed to help the government investigate Tanner’s drug dealing. At the direction of law enforcement, Solis called Tanner and arranged to sell Tanner 15 kilograms of cocaine. The drug deal took place in the parking lot of a drugstore in Gary, Indiana on September 1, 2004. Because it would be unwise (for obvious reasons) to bring such a large amount of real cocaine to the deal, law enforcement provided Solis with 15 kilograms of simulated cocaine. Tanner was arrested when he took possession of the simulated cocaine from Solis.
Once in custody, Tanner quickly provided a full confession implicating himself as a high-level cocaine dealer. In that confession, Tanner identified his main supplier of cocaine, from whom he claimed to have purchased between 10 and 15 kilograms of cocaine on previous occasions. Tanner also named another supplier from whom he had purchased large amounts-between 5 and 10 kilograms at a time. Tanner further admitted that he was attempting to purchase 15 kilograms of cocaine from Solis at the time he was arrested, and he said that he had purchased somewhere between 15 and 25 kilograms of cocaine from Solis in the past.
Tanner was indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, and with attempted possession of 5 kilograms or more of cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846. Tanner was tried on these charges alongside alleged co-conspirator Lance Foster. Both Moore and Solis testified to Tanner’s participation in a multi-state conspiracy to distribute large quantities of crack cocaine. Solis also testified as to his involvement in the sham drug sale that led to Tanner’s arrest, and the prosecution played for the jury recordings of Tanner’s and Solis’s phone calls planning that sale. Particularly damning was the testimony of the two FBI agents who took Tanner’s confession after his arrest. Those agents testified that Tanner had admitted that he was part of a large conspiracy to distribute drugs and that he was attempting to purchase cocaine from Solis when he was arrested. Tanner did not testify. He also did not seriously challenge the government’s overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Tanner chose instead to call a number of character witnesses. The jury convicted Tanner on both counts against him, and the district court sentenced Tanner to life imprisonment.]