Punished for Crimes Not Proven
Brett Kavanaugh and the case of Gregory “Boy Boy” Bell
After a nine-month trial, a jury convicted Gregory "Boy Boy" Bell of selling crack cocaine, three sales totaling five grams and carrying a sentence in the five-year range.
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More importantly for Bell, the jury acquitted him of 10 serious charges, including a trafficking conspiracy and a racketeering conspiracy that would have meant decades in prison.
At sentencing, the judge ruled that Bell had
