Prosecutors who missed charging opportunities, a loosely crafted plea agreement and defense lawyers who excavated a little-known Michigan case that turned on the difference between “a” and “the” allowed former federal Judge Jack T. Camp Jr. to walk away with a misdemeanor last month even though he pleaded to a felony after the FBI snared him in a cocaine deal.
Camp’s sentence, which the government said it will not appeal, amounts to a new legal precedent in Georgia affecting whether a felon’s prior convictions may be used to enhance criminal charges against anyone helping that felon commit a crime. The Michigan opinion and prosecutors who may have been wary of relitigating a decade of Camp’s cases would prove critical in the surprising outcome.
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