| Jermal Dixon After 10 Years For Crack
Gets 6 More Months From SDNY Judge Rakoff
After 22 on Rikers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 27 – Jermal Dixon was
sentenced for distribution of
crack cocaine distribution to
252 months back in March 2009
by U.S. District Court for the
South District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
He served
ten years and once on
supervised release in
Virginia, got a job with
Amazon. Then according to both
him and his lawyer, he fell
back in with the wrong crowd
in New York and was arrested
in March 2018 on Staten
Island, for crack and
marijuana.
At a hearing on
the alleged violation of
supervised released held on
January 24, 2020 - after Dixon
served 22 months on Rikers
Island and two more months in
the MCC - Judge Rakoff put
questions to the police
officer who had arrested
Dixon.
On
January 27, Judge Rakoff
questioned the quality of the
laboratory test of the
substances, noting that he was
he thought the only one in his
college class who did not
smoke pot. Ultimately he said
the problems with the lab
tests and testimony might not
matter, given other evidence.
Judge Rakoff sentenced Dixon
on the violations of
supervised release to eight
month, which minus the two
months in the MCC will come to
six months. For the 22 months
on Rikers Island, Dixon gets
no Federal credit. Inner City
Press will continue to follow
these issues. The case is US
v. Dixon, 03-cr-825
(Rakoff).
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