Dewayne Kee - Accused then Acquitted in Weed and Seed Program
Dewayne Kee was just nineteen years old when federal prosecutors charged
him with a federal drug trafficking offense for which he faced more than
a mimum mandatory five years in prison. This was done under a controversial
Clinton Administration Department of Justice program known as "Weed and
Seed." The Weed and Seed program targeted certain high crime, poor
neighborhoods, primarily African-American, for special federal prosecution
efforts. Individuals charged under this program were the "weeds"
that were to be pulled by federal prosecutors from their home neighborhoods
and sent to federal prisons for lengthy prison terms, generally for drug
offenses. After the neighborhood had been "weeded" of these people,
it would then be "seeded" with our tax dollars in federal programs
that would somehow make everything better.
Read the Florida Times Union's story on Mr. Kent's client Dewayne
Kee, and the Weed and Seed Drug Program. Click
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Federal prosecutors decided to "weed" Dewayne Kee. He was
acquitted at trial and returned home to his mother and family. Read
an excerpt from the Florida Times Union reporting on the trial's
result. Times Union report on acquittal of
Dewayne Kee.
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