United States v. Ennis

AMENDED SENTENCING MEMORANDUM

GERTNER, District Judge.

Seven defendants were indicted on various drug conspiracy and distribution charges. 1 Their prosecution followed an elaborate two year federal investigation into drug trafficking on the South Shore of Massachusetts. Some of the defendants were in their sixties, and one even in his seventies, with long criminal records. All but one was sentenced to lengthy terms of ten, fifteen, and even twenty years, far, far higher than comparable sentences of only two decades ago.

But however lengthy the term of imprisonment imposed, in some of these cases…