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SDNY Youthful Offender Crime
Qualifies Starkes As Career
Offender Leading to 100 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 31 –
Quentin Starkes
was charged with drug sales
and rackeeting conspiracy in
2017. He reached a plea
agreement with the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York which
stated a sentencing guideline
of 100 to 125 months.
But
then his pre-sentencing report
went higher, finding a
convention as a youthful
offender which it said
qualified to make him a career
offender.
On
October 31 SDNY Judge Lorna G.
Schofield agreed, and said the
correct guidelines were 188 to
235 months - which, she
hastened to say, she was not
required to follow, under
Booker and its
progeny.
And she did not.
Citing the 100 and 110 months
given to co-defendants, Judge
Schofield gave what she called
a below guidelines sentence of
100 months.
Starkes was said to have been
raised by a foster mother -
who to her credit adopted him
- and to have been diagnosed
as emotional disturbed. Fights
in prison were cited.
Judge Schofield
said she wished she had more
tools than sentencing, and
specifically chided the
Department of Education for
having ill-served Starkes. He
was led out of the courtroom
in shackles, for 100 months.
The case is US v. Starkes,
17-cr-610 (Schofield).
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