{"id":1397352,"date":"2022-03-23T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397352"},"modified":"2022-03-23T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:30:44","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-suggests-no-identifiable-victims-of-drug-kingpin-for-whom-she-cut-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ketanji-brown-jackson-suggests-no-identifiable-victims-of-drug-kingpin-for-whom-she-cut-prison-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson Suggests &#039;No Identifiable Victims&#039; of Drug Kingpin for Whom She Cut Prison Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fketanji-brown-jackson-suggests-no-identifiable-victims-of-drug-kingpin-for-whom-she-cut-prison-sentence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, suggested that \u201cthere were no identifiable victims\u201d in a case where she reduced the prison sentence of a self-proclaimed drug \u201ckingpin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jackson was asked about the case of convicted drug trafficker Keith Young whom, in 2018, she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/district-man-sentenced-20-years-prison-federal-narcotics-and-firearms-charges\">sentenced<\/a> to 20 years in prison, but later reduced the sentence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Young trafficked heroin laced with fentanyl, the deadly drug just\u00a0one kilogram of which can kill half a million people. There are a million milligrams in one kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) if she had contacted the victims before reducing Young\u2019s sentence, Jackson suggested that \u201cthere were no identifiable victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exchange went as follows:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>COTTON: Judge Jackson, before you granted this fentanyl kingpin\u2019s motion to reduce his sentence, did you contact any of the victims in his case?<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON: Senator, thank you for allowing me to address Mr. Young\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n<p>COTTON: I asked a simple question, did you contact the victims in his case or not?<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON: Senator, Mr. Young was not released. His sentence was reduced and I did not contact the victims in this case because there were no victims. He committed a crime, a drug crime. There were no identifiable victims in his case.<\/p>\n<p>COTTON: Drug crimes are not victimless crimes \u2014 100,000 Americans are killed by overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON: Understood Senator, but there was no one to contact because there were no identifiable\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[embedded content]\n<p>As Cotton noted, Jackson initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/22\/ketanji-brown-jackson-drug-kingpin-sentencing-sorry\/\">apologized<\/a> to Young for having to sentence him to 20 years in prison. Following passage of the First Step Act and amid the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Young requested compassionate release from federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Though Jackson denied the request, she rewarded him with a reduced sentence that cut his time in prison by at least seven years. Young bragged about his role as a drug \u201ckingpin\u201d and was authorizing payments for drugs while in prison before Jackson cut his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou reduced his sentence. He didn\u2019t file a motion to reduce his sentence. He wasn\u2019t eligible for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act because it wasn\u2019t retroactive toward him,\u201d Cotton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou took a motion for compassionate release, to get out of prison, and turned it into a motion to reduce a sentence so he is going to be released seven and a half years earlier, years from now,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Across the United States, drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years. From April 2020 to April 2021, for example, more than\u00a0100,000 Americans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/cdc-drug-overdoses-reach-record-high-under-joe-biden\/\">died<\/a> from overdoses. Deaths from overdoses\u00a0now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/nyt-drug-deaths-surpass-car-and-gun-fatalities-combined\/\">outpace<\/a>\u00a0the number of Americans killed from car crashes and guns, combined.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can watch day three of Jackson\u2019s confirmation hearing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/watch-live-confirmation-hearing-for-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-day-3\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, suggested that \u201cthere were no identifiable victims\u201d in a case where she reduced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}