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"Prosecutor looks back on 3 decades of battling drugs"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting local article from Pennsylvania.  Here are some excerpts: Assistant U.S. Attorney John McCann has given half his life to prosecuting criminals, and for most of them he's focused on illegal drug crime. The veteran prosecutor has been assigned to the U.S. Middle District Court here since 1992, but as July came to an end, so did his career. McCann's retirement leaves hundreds of drug dealers still behind bars, serving prison sentences and not out preying on society.  McCann didn't keep count over their numbers, but conservatively he estimates the number of his successful prosecutions at somewhere around 500 cases -- most of them ending with guilty pleas rather than jury verdicts.... Prosecuting drug cases is unpleasant work and the drug problem remains a big problem for society...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 01, 2010 (boomark / email).