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UNITED STATES v. FISHER

No. S3 03 CR 1501 SAS.

451 F.Supp.2d 553 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America v. Otis FISHER, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

October 11, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Jaffe, Laurie Korenbaum, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York City, for the Government.

Francisco E. Celedonio, New York City, for Defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In the eleven years that I have served as a district court judge, I have been troubled by the exceedingly harsh sentences imposed on those who deal in crack cocaine.1 I find it unsettling, for example, that a defendant who deals five grams of crack cocaine faces the same sentence as a defendant who deals five hundred grams

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