U.S. v. TAYLOR

No. 19-12872.

982 F.3d 1295 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Otto D. TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 9, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabriel Adam Mendel , Jane Elizabeth McBath , U.S. Attorney Service — Northern District of Georgia, U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

W. Matthew Dodge , Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before GRANT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and AXON, District Judge.


Otto Taylor was part of a drug-trafficking ring selling crack and powder cocaine in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Taylor got a life sentence, later reduced to 30 years, for his part in the drug ring.

At the time, the federal penalties for selling crack cocaine were extraordinarily harsh—a drug dealer who...

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