U.S. Judge’s Striking Move in Felony Drug Case: Probation, Not Prison
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The New York Times
May 25, 2016

“A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion issued on Wednesday that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people’s lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.”

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