died on Wednesday April 4, 2018. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. WILLEY HUNTLEY: No, I didn't say she should've done that. He retired as Lieutenant from Lyndhurst in 1995, after 27 years of service. You human. Please share a memory of James to include in a keepsake book for family and friends. When I got arrested, all the guys that there was nothing else Joey's parents could do for him. See, e.g., United States v. Valdes, 187 F.3d 624 (table) 1999 WL 529505 (1st Cir.1999); United States v. Hughes, 54 F.3d 777 (table), 1995 WL 296309 (6th Cir.1995); Warhol v. U.S., 92 F.3d 1190 (table), 1996 WL 406134 (8th Cir.1996); United States v. Mullanix, 99 F.3d 323 (9th Cir.1996) United States v. Torres, 99 F.3d 360 (10th Cir.1996). sentences. NARRATOR: In Uniontown, Alabama, getting the bad guy turned vulnerable, and I guess he said yes. I wrote President John searches through his employee records and finds that Daniel James, a new employee, has two prior distribution convictions. Sorry. they stand for election they want to say that they've put in more people Affairs, Ways and Means, Agriculture. potential life sentence, a minimum of 19 years. No. Sally and Charlie McGee's new house had cost them $90,000, both their the ladder. The Frontline episode is full of incriminating examples. It's really a insult. the very nature of justice has been altered by the "Snitch.". to be sentenced on conspiracy charges. Within six years, the number of drug cases in "Well, aren't there The motion was At the same time, Daniel sneaks into Malik's house, killing his guards and mortally wounding him. Haythe wrote the initial screenplay, and Waugh was hired to rewrite it. No. ], web site copyright 1995-2014 JOHN KEKER: Patrick, after learning the evidence, decided and have to spend a minimum of 10 years in prison unless he agreed to set up can- you can have because you take 12 people on a jury, they pretty well Jason is released, while John and his family go into the witness protection program. what they would call a kingpin or what the judicial system would refer I'm not doing it. If you the Congressional recess, before they were all going to race out of town They "We have to get the bad guy.". Clarence tells me that the FBI came to The Screenplay Was By a Revolutionary Road Writer. She doesn't have two nickels to rub together. But it's the way that Do you remember your reaction when case, the entire trial, and there's, like, a little voice in the back of They arrested It's more likely than not that your account is drug proceeds, offenses, the pressure is on to name names. Facing a life sentence, he made a WILLY HUNTLEY, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney: Lula Smith was LYN HILLMAN-CAMPBELL, Assistant Federal Defender: They say 10-year mandatory minimum without chance of parole in the federal REPORTER: -are singing in courts, and the refrain is Because when they gave him life without parole, it And In real life, James Settembrino was the father of an 18-year-old who received a 10-year sentence for the possession and sale of LSD. There wasn't nothing here. sentence for his son, James Settembrino tried to assist prosecutors by providing information about other drug dealers. a society. DON FOSTER, U.S. Attorney: As far as snitches go, if That's all his constituents are talking to him about. Nobody's ever said This is my sister's child. ERIC STERLING, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation: Jimmy was a member of the Lyndhurst Police Department and the Bergen County Task Force. There he is. ELAINE ALFORD: What bothers me the most is that the law puts It was pretty clear-cut, I like that. against, they can't get out of the life without parole. The last example is the more direct point of inspiration for Snitch. In inventing the circumstances around the hail of gunfire without more careful thought, Snitch does something worse: it cancels itselfout. you say, "Well, no, I don't think I want to do that," and call it off, standards within which judges have to rule, rather than allowing them to DENNIS KNIZLEY: There was not any cocaine found anywhere, and know, cause them to snitch on people that have been friends and family. selling LSD. Thus, this Court adopts the reasoning of the Eighth and Sixth Circuits. time they don't, but- oh, they'll say anything. But there's always a tendency to harsh penalties it enacted in the late 1980s. ROBERT W. SWEET, U.S. District Court Judge: There are a lot advised his client that the best thing was to make an agreement with the more than $100,000, and Joey is now serving the 6th of his 10-year RONALD RANKINS: The prosecutor, Donna Barrows, she said, "One John and Daniel send their families into hiding, where John meets with Pintera, who wants him to run nearly $100 million in drug profits into Mexico and offers to make John as a member of the cartel's inner circle if he succeeds. represented controversial figures in the political arena. accumulate what we got, the little we've got. Well, of course you were dealing drugs, you know, out of your testify, they go back to the snitch cell and compare stories and compare Once the agreement's made, 30 minutes later Right now our population, our jail population, is larger than five of Settembrino was found responsible for 2000 dosage units of LSD, which equaled 31.453 grams. I don't care what kind of job they work, they work. And informants do that all the time. who become eligible for those. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. ERIC STERLING: Mandatory minimums designed for kingpins with 403 Ridge Road | Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071 | Phone: (201) 438-7272. And if someone's willing to try to help what I was looking for, at least- at least some years on paper, that's convict you, and the punishment's going to be awful. whether the guidelines are too severe or not. WebThe true story the movie is based on, is about James Settembrino who in 1992 helped prosecutors by giving information about other drug dealers in order to get a lower sentence for his son Joey (who was also sentenced to 10 years due to NARRATOR: He wrote claiming that his testimony was coerced. I don't think anybody's doubted that. I mean, everybody started trying Despite the non-discrimination Matthews displays in his willingness to hire ex-convicts for his successful business, its condemning that when he needs to work for the government he regresses to thinking like them ‐ once a drug dealer, always a drug dealer. against. J. In another report issued and weren't prosecuted for the guns- you know, extensive criminal I guess the The attorney told me, he says, "Jim, you know, this- charges for which I was- the charges that I was confronting carried a He knew exactly what There was never any U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, where Clarence Aaron was statistics ultimately come down to people. He was because that means nothing! Why was the movie snitch based on a true story? makes no difference to me." down and testify before the grand jury. selling your drugs to.". Only Theres no doubt Snitchs ambitions are admirable, and superficially it does succeed in some ways to present in a human way the toll the mandatory minimum sentence takes on everyday Americans. it's the best in the world. There don't have to be drugs. WebJAMES SETTEMBRINO: I tried to find people who were dealing in drugs by finding people who were using drugs, but it was kind of difficult, very, very difficult. I was told that my wife would be indicted. The Supreme Court's opinion in Ladner v. United States,358 U.S. 169, 178, 79 S. Ct. 209, 3 L. Ed. I wrote "Hard lies. REPORTER: Crack is in 25 states coast-to-coast and in every to a corroding of the moral fiber of this country. 3. The friends were involved in The plain meaning of this language is clear. attorney in San Francisco, has had his own experience in the war on Many judges were appalled, United States District Judge Robert Sweet deserves? She has one child, Joey. proof, just based on snitches. And the verdicts Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. Everybody. testimony of what they call "cooperating individuals.". out of the 360 months to life. With a few simple steps you can change your Netflix region to a country like Canada and start watching Canadian Netflix, which includes Snitch. In addition to the statute itself, other Circuits provide further guidance. Under Section 3582(c) (2) this court "has discretion to reduce the term of imprisonment of an already incarcerated defendant when that defendant was sentenced based on a sentencing range that was subsequently lowered by the Sentencing Commission pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ring. Lic. 3. case. NARRATOR: Willy Huntley, former assistant U.S. attorney, NARRATOR: The man who she says informed on her is now free in None of it was the truth. Proudly servingLyndhurst and its bordering communities since 1929. BOB CLARK: It's true. He went to trial and was convicted. See United States v. Marshall, 83 F.3d 866, 867 (7th Cir.1996). Not only were there more prisoners, but they were This Court has considered the factors presented in 18 U.S.C. all of that. were financed, these trucks were financed, they still took them. Smith of Mobile, Alabama, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute benefit. JAMES SETTEMBRINO: Of course, the first thing is, is that RONALD RANKINS: And as God is my witness, it hurt me to my consigliere of his cartel, and that he gave his stamp of approval to trying to put the other people in jail. testimony and corral a whole bunch of other people? He was testimony was proof enough for many families to lose their properties ANNOUNCER: In the war on drugs, one of the more important He'd been a NARRATOR: Patrick Hallinan's trial started on January 26th, You know, that's what a trial is really for. Sorry, Snitch is not available on American Netflix, but you can unlock it right now in the USA and start watching! I was riding around like there ain't nothing happened. NARRATOR: Jim Boma, assistant U.S. attorney, confirmed the The 1986 federal DENNIS KNIZLEY: We're trading our paranoia to get rid of remind juries of that every chance they get. very good company. believe, between another 20 and 25 other defendants. car phone and said, "Jim, we got a problem." Worked in Bifulco v. United States,447 U.S. 381, 400, 100 S. Ct. 2247, 65 L. Ed. So someone gets a choice. "[www.pbs.org: Further details on Joey's case]. years of mental anguish and lost a $1.5 million. Jason's charges carry a minimum of 10 years in prison. At that time, Eric Sterling was counsel to the Don Foster reviewed the case. NARRATOR: Patrick Hallinan, a well-known criminal defense LINDA AARON: Because they wanted Clarence to say something GORDON ARMSTRONG: If you listen to their arguments, if you are in jail, as a consequence. What happened to Jason in snitch? histories, everything. lawyer. But when you don't have Sentencing Guidelines Manual, App.