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U.S. v. WALLS

Crim. No. 92-0234-LFO.

841 F.Supp. 24 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America v. Riley S. WALLS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

As Amended February 4, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Horan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, DC, for U.S.

Richard S. Stern, Washington, DC, for Riley Walls.

Peter M. Brody, Ropes & Gray, Washington, DC, amicus for Walls & Jackson.

Grandison Ernest Hill, Hill & Associates, Washington, DC, for Jerome A. Jackson.

Abbe Jolles, Washington, DC, for Karen M. Blakney.

Bruce A. Baird, Michele J. Woods, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, amici for Blakney.

Charles Kubinski, Washington, DC, for Charles F. Campbell.

Philip T. Inglima, Cacheris & Treanor, Washington, DC, amicus for Campbell.

Nancy Hollander, Albuquerque, NM, Judy Clarke, Spokane, WA, Amicus Brief of the Nat. Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

MEMORANDUM ON SENTENCING

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

At issue here is whether the difference between the mandatory minimum sentences these defendants face after cooking or causing powder cocaine to be cooked into crack cocaine before they sold it and the lesser sentences they would have faced if they had delivered cocaine in powder form violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution or the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual...

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