Chelsea Madill, who pleaded guilty in 2019 to a drug charge, was sentenced to three years of supervised release and a unique condition — she has to finish a law degree.
The Southern District Court of Texas chief judge sentenced Madill to three years of supervised release and one special condition — she must finish her law degree.
She was arrested in January 2019 after federal agents alleged she’d used companies registered under her name to coordinate the movement of cocaine from Texas to other locations in the United States, a criminal complaint states. An informant told federal agents that Madill was working with a drug-trafficking organization that had been under investigation since 2008 and was believed to have been operating in Mexico, Texas and northern cities in the United States, the complaint says.
After her plea, Madill enrolled in law school, Crane said. He learned from Madill and her public defender that her legal aspirations were borne out of trying to secure an attorney during the case.“When she was indicted on this case, she could not find a lawyer that she could afford, that they were all quoting her large sums — I want to say like $50,000 and up — to represent her,” Crane said. “And so she couldn’t afford counsel, and this motivated her to try and become a lawyer.
Drug crime sentences that reduce or eliminate prison time started taking off with the drug-court movements in the 1990s, when the criminal justice system was overloaded with cases, said Heather Schoenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Boston University.
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