United States v. Mosley

OPINION AND ORDER

Myron H, Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Defendant Shedrick Mosley is before the court for sentencing on a revocation petition. The court is confronted with a defendant who appears to have a drug addiction that significantly contributed to the underlying conduct at issue and for whom previous attempts at treatment failed.

This is an outline of the general approach the court deems appropriate to follow in cases such as this. Given the current psychiatric understanding that drug addiction is a disease, albeit a mental one, the court believes that a defendant who suffers…