| Veteran Stillian Gets 29
Days Time Served On 108 Month Guideline For
Four Pounds of Meth
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 4 –
Mark Stillion was brought from
California to New York in 2018
charged with arranging the
sale of four pounds of crystal
methamphetamine in a hotel in
Los Angeles to a buyer from
New York. He was presented on
September 6, 2018 in the
Magistrates Court of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
He entered
a guilty plea, receiving from
SDNY Assistant US Attorney
Jonathan Rebold a so-called
Pimintel letter that his
sentencing guideline for his
role in the meth sale would be
from 108 to 135 months in
jail.
On
December 4, traveling up from
a drug treatment program in
Texas, Stillion received a
sentence of time served from
SDNY Judge Jesse M. Furman,
who during the proceeding at
which Inner City Press was the
only media said that he has
never before made such a steep
downward departure from the
sentencing guidelines: in this
case, from 108 months to time
served (29 days).
Stillion was in the US
military, and his use of meth
was ascribed during the
proceeding to PTSD. Presumably
there are filings to this
effect, but the sentencing
submissions were not in the
public docket at the time of
the sentencing. AUSA Rebold
said the sentencing guidelines
in his Pimentel letter were
inappropriately
high.
Judge Furman said
he hopes Stillian will
continue in Camp Hope in Texas
and returning to serving his
country as before. It was a
notable showing of mercy, one
not always seen for other
defendants, particularly
narcotics sale defendants, in
the SDNY. The case is US
v. Stillian, 18-cr-185
(Furman).
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