The US Supreme Court ruled for a former drug trafficker in his bid for a lesser sentence.
In a unanimous ruling on Friday, the justices said a ban on concurrent sentences in one section of the criminal code for drug-related gun crimes doesn’t govern a sentence for a conviction under another section of the law.
Effrain Lora was found guilty in 2016 of aiding and abetting the use of a firearm that killed a rival drug dealer while trafficking drugs in New York City and conspiring to distribute cocaine.
He was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) and sentenced to ...
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