That's Excessive, Even for a Drug Dealer!

That's Excessive, Even for a Drug Dealer!

A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned a drug dealer's prison sentence of up to 216 years, calling it "excessive." Forty-three-year-old Gene "Shorty" Carter, of Philadelphia, had been given the 104 1/2- four years ago after being convicted of running a major heroin ring while serving time in a halfway house for a drug conviction. The judge imposed mandatory sentences for 16 separate crimes, then ran them consecutively. Even though the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld those convictions, the court ordered Carter must be resentenced noting that juries, not judges, must decide whether mandatory sentences are warranted. It also called Carter's sentence "manifestly unreasonable and excessive." (ABC News)