A drug defendant facing a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence will have a second chance for a lower sentence after a federal appeals court found there was an inadequate factual basis for his guilty plea.
Defendant Troy Culbertson insisted that he pleaded to a conspiracy involving only three kilograms of cocaine in 2009 before Eastern District Judge Sterling Johnson (See Profile), an amount that would subject him to a five-year mandatory minimum instead of 10 years.
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