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On the recordSeptember 17, 2014
It is fair to say based on Sentencing Commission data that the majority of drug convictions are of couriers, mules, drivers, low level dealers?
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers highlights that most drug convictions involve low-level offenders.

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