Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

Will Willie Mays Aikens be freed as a result of the new crack guidelines?

By Douglas A. Berman

Articles in the Kansas City Star and the The State indicate that a renown baseball player may be about to benefit from the new federal crack guidelines.  Here are the basics of this sporting story:New sentencing guidelines might earn Willie Mays Aikens an early release from prison.  The former Seneca High and S.C. State baseball standout, who found fame and fortune with the Kansas City Royals before losing it all to drugs, could be ordered set free as soon as today. His fate is in the hands of Laine Cardarella, a federal public defender who filed a stipulation and waiver agreement in Aikens? name Monday in the Western District Court of Missouri. ?We?re hoping he?ll be home soon,? Cardarella said.  In 1994, Aikens was sentenced to 20 years, eight months after being convicted on federal drug and firearms charges...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).