U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Thursday that her office will not object to motions for new sentences that any of 16 defendants punished by ex-Judge Jack T. Camp may wish to bring. Yates said witnesses with close connections to the drug case in which Camp last month pleaded guilty said he may have been biased against black defendants or impaired by drug use.
The 16 defendants were sentenced by Camp between May and late September, Yates said at a press conference. That was the period during which Camp has acknowledged that he “on a roughly biweekly basis … engaged in the illegal use of controlled substances” including marijuana, powdered cocaine, Xanax, Roxycontin, and other unknown prescription painkillers,” Yates said.
