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Adam Klasfeld
Courthouse News
MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge refused to jail two young drug addicts and passionately urged other courts to choose treatment over incarceration.
“These two sentences raise the profoundly troubling question of how to sentence young defendants whose addiction[s] lead to violation of criminal drug laws,” Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote on Friday.
Although he addressed both cases in the same ruling, Weinstein wrote that their stories were vastly different.
“One of the defendants – Lior Hanuka – fell into addiction after a drug was prescribed lawfully, and with medical justification, for pain caused by injuries in an auto accident. The other – Andrew Ilayayev – used drugs for personal
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