Accepted $2000 to deliver a package containing methamphetamines.

Offense: Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Prior convictions: none.

Sentence: 10 years.

Accepted $2000 to deliver a package containing methamphetamines.

Offense: Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Prior convictions: none.

Sentence: 1 year.

"Mandatory minimum sentencing deprives judges of the ability to fashion sentences that suit the particular offence and offender. At great cost to taxpayers, mandatory minimums have forced judges to sentence thousands of first time, non-violent drug offenders to unconscionably long prison terms."

-National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers