Pubdate: Wed, 02 May 2001
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298

TRENTON: SENTENCE REDUCTION SOUGHT

A young black man who is suing former Gov. Christie Whitman for 
patting him down during a drug sweep in Camden in 1996 is asking the 
State Supreme Court to reduce a sentence he received for a subsequent 
drug conviction. In a case unrelated to the pat-down, a lawyer for 
the man, Sherron Rolax, told the court that the four-year sentence he 
received for a 1997 cocaine possession charge was inconsistent with 
statewide sentencing practices. The court did not issue a ruling in 
the case. A photograph of the pat-down showing a smiling Mrs. 
Whitman, now head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, was 
widely published last year.
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