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By The Sentencing Project

Willie Mays Aikens, former first baseman for the Kansas City Royals, made baseball history when he became the first player to have a pair of two-homer games in the 1980 World Series. Years later he made another kind of history when a longstanding addiction to cocaine ended his baseball career and ultimately led to a nearly 21-year sentence for selling crack cocaine to an undercover officer. Finally, in 2008, he again made headlines when a federal judge reduced his lengthy prison term to 14 years as a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s recent adjustment to the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines.  Aikens was released in June. Posted Date:06-17-2008

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).