United States v. Smith

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Criminal Action No. 95-154-8 (BAH) v. Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell GERALD SMITH, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION In 1996, defendant Gerald Smith was convicted, following a jury trial, of twenty-one violent crimes and gun offenses stemming from his membership in “the so-called Fern Street Crew, an organization which distributed crack cocaine for seven years in the District of Columbia and Maryland,” with the “Crew’s activities [] facilitated by its use of violence to defend territory from rival drug dealers and…