Lewis gets 4 months in prison

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Lewis sentenced in federal drug case


ATLANTA (AP) - Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday for using a cell phone to try to set up a drug deal about 4{ years ago.

The sentence issued in federal court was what Lewis expected under an agreement reached with prosecutors in October.
Lewis, who tried to set up the deal a few months after he was the No. 5 overall pick in the 2000 NFL draft, also will spend two months in a halfway house and perform 500 hours of community service following his prison term.

Prosecutors agreed to drop more serious drug conspiracy and attempted cocaine possession charges.


As expected, Ravens running back Jamal Lewis was sentenced to four months of jail time on Wednesday. (Doug Pensinger / GettyImages)

"I'm truly sorry for what I did," Lewis said to U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans.

Explaining the short sentence, the judge said the government didn't have a strong case and noted the only witness against Lewis was an informant with a lengthy criminal record.

Evans said she was also giving Lewis "credit for stepping up to the bar" and admitting his guilt.

The football player has until Feb. 4 to surrender to allow him time to have a cast removed from his right ankle, the judge said. Lewis recently had surgery on the foot. Evans said she will recommend that Lewis serve his incarceration at a federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala. The community confinement will be served at a halfway house in Atlanta.

Defense lawyer Ed Garland said the sentence was fair and allows for Lewis to return to the Ravens next season.

"Jamal Lewis has his life and his career back," Garland told reporters outside court.

Lewis was suspended for two games by the NFL after his guilty plea; the Ravens finished the season 9-7 and missed the playoffs.

Lewis, a former star at Tennessee, could have faced at least 10 years in prison if convicted of the conspiracy charge, but likely would have received a shorter sentence under federal guidelines. In 1997, he pleaded guilty to a shoplifting charge in suburban Atlanta, but officials agreed to wipe his record clean if he complied with his probation.

In the drug case, Lewis was accused of helping broker a cocaine deal for childhood friend Angelo Jackson during conversations with a government informant in Atlanta.

On June 23, 2000 - Lewis had been drafted by the Ravens on April 15 - the FBI said an informant contacted Lewis on his cell phone to discuss selling cocaine to Lewis and Jackson. The FBI said Lewis and Jackson later met the informant at an Atlanta restaurant. Both conversations were taped.

Jackson and the informant met several times more over the next several weeks, but Lewis was not part of any of those conversations, court papers say. No drugs ever exchanged hands.

Lewis signed a six-year, $35.3 million contract with the Ravens in July of that year. Three years later, he was chosen NFL offensive player of the year after rushing for 2,066 yards, the second highest total ever for a single season. Lewis wasn't indicted on the federal drug charges until February 2004; Prosecutors say they waited to protect an ongoing investigation.

Jackson pleaded guilty to attempting to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. He was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in federal prison.

"Thank you, your honor, I'm sorry for my actions," Jackson told the judge.

Lewis and Jackson grew up in the same Atlanta neighborhood and had known each other for years.
 
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you beat me to the topic. it's a real shame that lewis did something like this. for someone that has the opportunity to succeed, you have to be good off the field as well as when your out there playing. i hated for this to happen to lewis.
 
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i loved jamal when he was here. but he really deserves more than this. i hope he learns his lesson. he is gotta be the stupidest human on the earth for this one. :spank:
 
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i know what he did was wrong but........how do you get 4 months on prison for attempting to set up a cocaine deal?
 
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Originally posted by checkerboard_charly@Jan 27, 2005 4:22 PM
oh yeah.

DONT DROP THE SOAP.

Like anybody's dumb enough to try that on a guy like Jamal Lewis :blink:

Sucks for Jamal. I like his playing, but he's gotta get the full consequence for this one.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself+Jan 27, 2005 8:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (milohimself @ Jan 27, 2005 8:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-checkerboard_charly@Jan 27, 2005 4:22 PM
oh yeah.

DONT DROP THE SOAP.

Like anybody&#39;s dumb enough to try that on a guy like Jamal Lewis :blink:

Sucks for Jamal. I like his playing, but he&#39;s gotta get the full consequence for this one. [/quote]
I doubt anyone in the pen is dumb enough to try it but just remember man...there is someone bigger out there than Jamal...but I doubt it would happen myself...That&#39;s still nasty though.....I agree with you though...He needs to get the full consequences of this one
 

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Jamal Lewis reminds me of OJ Simpson. Both on and off the field.

I stopped being a fan of his when he was a senior and he ran like he was terrified to even have the ball for fear of getting hurt, yet Cheese Henry could take a pounding with 30 carry games all season long.
 
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Originally posted by Indiana Vol Fan@Jan 27, 2005 5:59 PM
At least he&#39;s a good fit in Baltimore with the other Lewis..lol

Come on now Indy, what Ray did and what Jamal did is very different. I think that Jamal will be very popular in prison football games.
 
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Originally posted by Orangewhiteblood+Jan 27, 2005 10:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Orangewhiteblood @ Jan 27, 2005 10:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Indiana Vol Fan@Jan 27, 2005 5:59 PM
At least he&#39;s a good fit in Baltimore with the other Lewis..lol

Come on now Indy, what Ray did and what Jamal did is very different. I think that Jamal will be very popular in prison football games. [/quote]
Yeah. Though very wrong, hooking up two mutual acquaintences for a drug deal does not quite rise to the level of slashing the mother of your children and her companion.

 
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Originally posted by Indiana Vol Fan@Jan 27, 2005 5:59 PM
At least he&#39;s a good fit in Baltimore with the other Lewis..lol

isn&#39;t there a big difference between killing someone and &#39;talking&#39; about drugs on a telephone??
 

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