MEMORANDUM ON SENTENCING
KOPF, District Judge.
This case arises from a prison sentence imposed in 1993. At that time, the defendant was an angry, young, poorly educated, pregnant single mother of two children who had recently converted to the Islamic faith. A jury found that she substantially assisted her male cousin, the leader of a conspiracy, in a successful effort to distribute large quantities of crack cocaine. The jury's verdict was supported by overwhelming...
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