95% CONVICTION RATE!!! Its all over...

[barman]

CHUCKSIMS: Lewis will not do any time. He will never be convicted. No drugs, no money, just BS talk.

BM: Don't need any drugs. Don't need any money.
Don't need anything but the testimony of the snitch.

Federal drug conspiracy laws indict each and everyone connected in any remote way to the transaction as being equal players.

Go here, bookmark the site and give yourself time to read more about how federal drug laws work.

http://www.november.org

Check out THE WALL. Read some of the summaries of how people are doing 10, 20, 30+ years for answering the phone and taking a message for their drug dealer boyfriend.


The only way J Lewis walks is if the prosecutors drop charges.

The jury will be ordered by the judge to convict based on the evidence of the snitch.

It won't matter what Lewis offers in defense. If it can be demonstrated in any way that they knew each other, the prosecutors can submit the testimony of the snitch as gospel truth.

Doesn't matter if the juror is black, white, NFL Fan, etc.

 

[theswami]

Jazz-

Thanks for the article.

 

[JohnnyDeMarco]

Barman
The credibility of the snitch will be destroyed by Ed Garland. The motive of the snitch will be torn apart. Plus we have to see how Lewis friend steps up 4 him. Federal court or not, a black jury will not convict J Lewis. My attorney works hand in hand with Ed Garland and he says no way. Everything he has ever told me has been true.

 

[~Falco~]

Put this Dumbfck away. Just for being a greedy stupid drugdealingtokids pampered athlete. Society is better off with dimbulbs like this walking the street. Feds have his voice on tape. Slamdunk case. Let this be a lesson to others like him.

 

[kookoo]

Lewis will serve time IMO

 

[ChuckSims]

Lewis WILL NOT BE CONVICTED. He has the best attorney in Georgia. Prosecutors certainly get convictions on this kind of evidence but NOT against a superstar athlete that has a high priced attorney.

 

[NickyDeuces]

Cell phone call...

"Jamal here. Yea hey dawg what's up. You want me to do what? Are you crazy? I just signed a 35 million dollar contract. My futures so bright in the NFL I need shades. Dawg, I'd have to be stone cold stupid to gamble it all on some powder for the bros. No sweat. I'm out."

He doesn't figure to hit prison unless they really, really want to take him down. They've been known to fabricate. Probably pissed about losing the last Lewis.

[This message was edited by vegassportspics on February 29, 2004 at 03:38 AM.]

 

[NickyDeuces]

I'd bet he did close to exactly what they said he did. Of course that doesn't count.

Everyone knows its not whether you did something, it's whether they can prove you did something.

 

[wilheim]

Feds might have tough road ahead in case vs. Ravens' Lewis
Feb. 27, 2004


ATLANTA -- The government could have a tough time proving its drug conspiracy case against Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis because of the length of time it took to file charges, legal experts say.



The charges filed Wednesday were within the five-year statute of limitations. But a jury may ask why it took so long when authorities claim to have two taped conversations from June 2000 in which Lewis tried to broker a cocaine deal, say two former federal prosecutors and a law school professor.

"A jury will consider the passage in time in evaluating the government's evidence," said John Rowley, former chief of the narcotics section for the U.S. Attorney's office in Alexandria, Va. "The jury may well refuse to convict on merely one or two conversations without corroborating evidence of some kind."

Jim Cohen, director of the clinical law program at Fordham law school in New York, agreed.

"I think time is not the government's friend in this case," Cohen said. "Absent intervening stuff, the jury is going to be very suspicious."

Lewis remained free on bail Friday. The Atlanta native is charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine and using a cell phone in violation of federal law. If convicted of conspiracy, Lewis could face 10 years to life in prison.

The wild card in the case could be the tapes.

The FBI says an informant contacted Lewis on his cell phone on June 23, 2000, to discuss selling cocaine to the player and his childhood friend, Angelo Jackson. Hours after the call, Lewis and Jackson met with the informant at an Atlanta restaurant.

Both conversations were taped, the FBI says.

At the restaurant, Lewis and Jackson asked the informant how much cocaine the informant was capable of distributing, the FBI alleges. Jackson and the informant met again three weeks later at a gas station and discussed drugs, but no purchase was made and Lewis wasn't at that meeting, an FBI affidavit says.

Jackson had several more conversations with the informant and an undercover FBI agent, but Lewis was not part of those conversations, court papers say.

Kent Alexander, a former U.S. Attorney for Atlanta, said the tapes will tell a lot.

He said the credibility of the informant is likely to be called into question by the defense, but at the same time, Lewis' own words may be hard to overcome.

"If there are tapes, the tapes play just as well as they would four years ago," Alexander said. "It's when witnesses have to testify from memory that things get a little sketchier."

Lewis' attorney, Ed Garland, did not return a phone call seeking comment Friday. He has said previously that his client is innocent and is being framed by the informant.

The government could argue that it waited so long to charge Lewis because it was conducting a larger investigation that would have been jeopardized if details were released earlier. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta declined to comment when contacted Friday. A recording on his answering machine said his office will not discuss the case.

Alexander, now general counsel at Emory University, said there seems to be something missing that prosecutors have not discussed.

"I'm sure that office would not go forward if they didn't think they had a strong case," Alexander said.


AP NEWS

 

[lurkerforages]

You might be right about the 95% but I would guess that is if you have a public defender.

With a great legal team who can dig the dirt with massive resources the chances of a conviction go down a LOT.

 

[NickyDeuces]

The courts are mostly a 'who is smarter than who' twisted game. Reportedly, Nancy Grace (court tv) had a 100% conviction rate as a prosecutor. Another prosecutor on the same cases, with the same evidence, might have gone 85% - but she had the gift so everyone bit the dust.

Without money and fame, Carruth and Juice would most likely be on death row. But the row is almost exclusively reserved for the poor and uneducated. Recently read a 280 page legal appeal, mostly discussing what took place in a one hour period. In plain English it could have easily been condensed to about two pages.

I see a lot of injustice in the deal. Then again, it could be me missing something.