INJUSTICE ANYONE? –
Dec. 12, 2024 – For $30, Kaream Moore pedaled his bicycle at the request of a man he had not previously met to deliver a baggie containing 40 grams of fentanyl. The price for the homeless man, who has a long history of drug addiction but no previous record of trafficking, turned out to be much higher when he was caught: A mandatory minimum of five years in prison.But now his case has become a flashpoint in the debate over drug crime sentencing practices, with the Orlando federal judge who sentenced Moore issuing a scathing critique of the justice system, and a well-known Central Florida attorney seeking leniency, possibly even from the White House.
“This sentence is unnecessarily long, unjust, and does not meet the statutory purposes of sentencing,” Judge Roy Dalton, an Obama appointee to the federal bench, wrote in a sentencing order. “But the Court is bound to follow the law until wisdom and common sense prevail. Unfortunately for Mr. Moore, that day likely will not arrive in time for him.”
