Criminal
Jan. 19, 2011
Federal Drug Court Is Small But Growing
Fred Carraway and two other defendants returned to federal court Thursday to graduate as the first-ever class of a pilot program that seeks to plug drug offenders into treatment rather than prison.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Otis Wright of the Central District sat in a theater audience last fall watching a convicted bank robber from his courtroom give the opening monologue in a play.
"I'm not much for hyperbole," Wright recalled, "but Fred is the real deal ... He performed magnificently."
Last week, Fred Carraway rolled into Wright's courtroom again,...
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