Jamaica's notorious drug kingpin, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, was sentenced today in New York Federal court to 23 years in prison.
Via Gleaner
Confessed Jamaican gangster Christopher "Dudus" Coke was today
sentenced to 23 years in prison, for narcotics trafficking, trafficking
of firearms and racketeering as well as assault.
Federal Judge Robert P Patterson sentenced Coke to 20 years on the
first count and three years on the assault charge, both sentences are to
run consecutively.
His prison sentence will be followed by two years of supervised
release during which time he will be subject to drug testing and
supervision of the probation office.
Coke has 14 days in which to file an appeal if he so wishes.
In court this morning, an eloquent but nervous Coke asked that the
judge be lenient and take into consideration his good deeds which he
said included homework and remedial programs for students, as well as a
curfew which took school aged children off the streets at a certain
time.
He said he took care of his people and made sure they were alright.
Coke also told the court that he was innocent of allegations
directed at him from Jermaine "Cowboy" Cohen and Anthony Brown, noting
he was seeing Brown for the first time in his life when he appeared in
court two weeks ago to testify against him.
Defense attorney Stephen Rosen also told the court that there was
not on iota of truth in anything the witnesses said. This included
corporating witnesses one and two whose names cannot be released.
Coke family member lead by aunt Angella Jackson were very upset and
had no comment but asked the press to respect the privacy of their
family.
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