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LV man gets 30 years for making meth

Jace Radke

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 | 9:53 a.m.

A 35-year-old Las Vegas man convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

Doyle Wilson Williams, also known as J.R., has been in the North Las Vegas Detention Center since his Feb. 22, 2000 arrest on other drug-related charges.

Williams was convicted of one count of manufacturing at least 50 grams of methamphetamine at the Desert Villas Apartments, near Jones and Lake Mead boulevards, and in a house in Henderson near Pebble Road and Eastern Avenue.

In addition to the 30-year term, U.S. District Judge David Hagen also sentenced Williams to six years of supervised release after he serves his prison time.

Williams' attorney, Thomas Michaelides, asked Hagen to lessen the sentence because of the amount of time his client had to spend at the North Las Vegas Jail, saying that the conditions at the jail are overcrowded.

Hagen declined, saying that the argument is not a basis to impose a lighter sentencing guideline.

"Everyone knows that confinement in a local jail fails in comparison with a Bureau of Prisons facility, but that just isn't a basis for a downward departure (from sentencing guidelines)," Hagen said.

Williams' trial was pushed back by several continuances. Williams began his trial in September 2001, but it was delayed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

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