United States v. Jones

MEMORANDUM

YOUNG, District Judge.

On June 10, 2010, after a four-day trial, Daquawn Jones (“Jones”) was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and distribution of .62 grams of crack cocaine within 1000 feet of a school. A career offender, Jones was sentenced by this Court to 10 years in prison. A routine case? Hardly.

I. IDENTIFICATION

This case turns on the identification of Jones as the person who set up the drug transaction in question. In the constitutional sense, the identification of Jones could hardly have been more suggestive, but even a suggestive identification does not…