co
TED that
office tried to . tate R0-
binson. Eleven minut tran-
pired between Robinson's
arrival at poli h dquarters
and when an ambulanc was
called, according to police radio
transcripts.
The 24-year-old' death
touched off a riot in the predomi­
nantly Black Logan Community,
during which more than
180,000 property dams
caused, a oonvenience to
burned and ral office and
firefighter were injured by
bricks nd debri thro n at
them.
After the riot, Concord in
state of emergency for a k.
Police Chief Bob Cansler
called in. the SBI to investigate
and put three officers on d k
duties until the investigation
was completed. The SBrs find­
ings in a 1,250-page report went
directly to Kenerly to determine
if there were grounds to file
criminal charges against the
three officers.
Cansler discontinued use of
pepper spray in his department
following the Aug. 30 release of
the state medical examiner's re­
port on Robinson, which stated
thatpepperspraybroughtahout
bronchial spasms that led to Ro- .
binson's death by asphyxia.
continued from page A 1
ring whose customers lived pri­
marily in the city's public- hous­
ing communities.
Fisher testified at her trial
that she suspected her boyfriend
of involvement with drugs but
never helped him.
Admitted drug dealers who
testified in return for reduced
sentences said that Fisher stored
crack at her apartment and col­
lected drug money for her boy­
friend, Steven "Marley"
Franklin.
JAMES WILL ASK -Judge
, Carlton Tilley to scale Fisher's
sentence down to what she would
have gotten if convicted of a pow­
dered-cocaine offense rather
than a crack offense. To succeed,
James will have to. convince
Tilley that the law has had such
a blatantly racially discrimina­
tory impact that it is unconstitu­
tional.
His argument centers on a
handful of statistics: 97 percent
of those convicted nationwide in
1992 of federal crack offenses are
minorities; 91.5 'percent are
black. Blacks account for 27.1
percent of those convicted of fed­
eral powdered-cocaine offenses.
Benjamin H. White, the act­
ing U.S. attorney for central
North Carolina, said Congress
decided to treat crack cocaine as
a greater threat than powdered
cocaine. The law that Congress
enacted is no more discrimina­
tory, he said, than one that man­
dates a 10-year prison sentence
for offenses involving LSD. The
majority of people convicted of
LSD offenses are white.
The racial disparity should be
stark enough, James said, to con­
vince Tilley that Congress either
had a discriminatory intent 'in
enacting the crack-cocaine pen­
alti in 1986 or that it made an
irrational distinction between
crack and powdered cocaine. Ap­
pellate courts generally hav up­
h ld th law.
Jam id he drugs ar
ntially th me and that ex-
perts have discovered that crack
is neither mo dangerous nor
more addictive than powdered
cocain . H id ongr over­
looked those fa in i h t to
enact tough 1 w on drugs before
th 19 6 1 ions.
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