United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wants the judge who sentenced him to 30 years back in 2009 to knock a few years off his sentence. Roueche is representing himself in trying to get his term …
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wants the judge who sentenced him to 30 years back in 2009 to knock a few years off his sentence. Roueche is representing himself in trying to get his term lowered by eight years.
“I never took into account that my lifestyle then would have such a negative impact on the world around me,” Roueche wrote. “After recognizing the devastating effects that the drug trade has caused internationally, and that I was a factor in that cause, I confronted my past, accepted my conduct as my own, and took responsibility.”
“Grant me the relief sought of 262 months, which is still a hefty penalty for a serious drug offence,” Roueche wrote, directly addressing U.S. District Court Chief Judge Robert Lasnik. “I am simply asking for some hope that I will one day leave this prison so that I can take action by giving back to the world I have forsaken.”
Lasnik was the judge who sentenced Roueche in a Seattle courtroom in December 2009, noting that he was the leader of a violent international drug gang and that his “day of reckoning” had arrived.
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