‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Urges Leniency In Sentencing Of Dealer Who Sold Fatal Fentanyl To Actor Michael K. Williams
deadline.comThe Wire co-creator and producer David Simon is urging a Manhattan judge to show leniency in sentencing the 71-year-old man who sold the fentanyl that resulted in the 2021 death of Simon’s friend, the Wire actor Michael K.
Williams. In a three-page letter obtained by The New York Times, Simon asks Federal District Court Judge Ronnie Abrams to show mercy in the upcoming sentencing of Carlos Macci, one of four men who has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing the narcotics that took Williams’ life in September 2021. RELATED: Michael K.
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Macci and know two things with certainty: First, that it was Michael who bears the fuller responsibility for what happened.” Simon continues that, secondly, “No possible good can come from incarcerating a 71-year-old soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction.” Simon writes that Macci sold drugs not for profit “but rather as someone caught up in the diaspora of addiction himself.” The letter was part of a filing on Thursday by Macci’s lawyer Benjamin Zeman.
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