| As Ortiz Is
Sentenced For Drugs SDNY Judge Rakoff Says
Society & the Laws Failed Him
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 20 – Ervin Ortiz was
arrested as part of a
narcotics
conspiracy.
On May 20, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff held his
sentencing. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge Rakoff said
that while Ortiz had not met
his responsibilities, neither
had society met its
responsibilities to Ortiz.
He said Ortiz'
crimes were not violent, and
all sprang from addiction that
was never treated. He said if
he had his druthers, some of
these drugs would be
legalized.
The sentence, it
seems, is 66 months. It
is a sentencing the transcript
of which will be worth
reading.
The case is US v.
Ortiz, 18-cr-413 (Rakoff)
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