| In SDNY Bronxite Makeem
Jordan Contests Career Offender Status But
Gets 72 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 8 – When Makeem Jordan
came up for sentencing on
January 8, he has two lawyers
and four in-person supporters
including his sister and his
mitigation specialist Jenny
Crawford, in the gallery where
Inner City Press was the only
media.
He
also had a criminal history
level of six, a previously
admitted career offender
status and a sentencing
guideline of 168 to 210
months.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Loretta A. Preska said
that Jordan "has earned his
career offender status." But
she paused to allow his lawyer
David Wikstrom to put into the
record two additional letters
of programs completed while in
custody.
Wikstrom's main
argument is that while Jordan
had directly sold marijuana,
he had only pleaded guilty to
200 grams of crack and 200
grams of heroin because he was
part of a Drug Trafficking
Organization which had sold
those. That, however, is what
today's US conspiracy laws are
about.
Wikstrom described a difficult
childhood, and even Jordan's
"Self-Made" tattoo, which also
features in Ms. Crawford's
eight page mitigation report,
part of the record.
Judge Preska said the Jordan
had also breached the trust of
the court, specifically of her
colleague Judge Sidney H.
Stein who had previously
sentenced Jordan to 30 months
(and who on January 7 imposed
for an unrelated slip and fall
fraud conspiracy a sentence of
68
months.)
After considering
the final two letters, Judge
Preska imposed a sentence of
72 months to be followed by a
lengthy 15 years of Supervised
Release. In the gallery, there
was surprise and headshaking.
Judge
Preska added, consecutive, six
months for the violation of
supervised released. She
closed advising Jordan not to
return, at least not in the
defendant's chair next to Mr.
Wikstrom. Jordan said he
agreed. Fifteen years is a
long time. The case is US v.
Jordan, 17-cr-283 (Preska).
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