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He has charts and graphs to back up his information

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In the first section, Sterling discusses how mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses came to be

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He incudes graphs, charts and statistics of individual federal offenders.

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He used charts and graphs to further explain his key terms

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Structured like an FAQ

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Sterling defines mandatory minimum sentences and forfeiture laws and breaks it down into a more simple terms for an audience that isn't familiar with the drug laws

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Formats of images to correlate with key terms. Chunking information.

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"Crimes would be analyzed, and depending upon specified criteria (for example, the defendant carried a gun during a crime, but didn't fire it at any one"

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Compares the difference of amount of drugs in possession relating to 5 year or 10 year sentences

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The author opens the article using Len Bias as an example because he died of a cocaine overdose. He was used as an example as mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenses were passed in 1986.

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Sterling will use a real or could be real scenario before or after giving the definition to make it clearer to the audience what could happen for example: "A drug offender while in jail awaiting trial may learn the names of other persons awaiting trial. He may learn all about substantial assistance. He may learn that he can easily make up a story that will get him out of prison fairly soon if his story provides "substantial assistance" in the prosecution of someone else as a "high level trafficker."

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Sterling gives an example of conspiracy law work stating," If a defendant is simply the doorman at a crack house, he is liable for all the crack ever sold from that crack house -- indeed, he is liable for all of the crack ever sold by the organization that runs the crack house."

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Explains the key terms in great detail and formatted in a QnA style.

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The history of the anti drug abuse act of 1986 is used to support the narrative that the law was implemented in haste simply as a byproduct between a completion of political parties.

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By providing the example of nearly a third of people sentenced having their sentences reduced by substantial assistance, Sterling illustrates the impact these laws have on people.

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he leaves a little box with direct links to the journals or articles he used in his paper

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"The top organizer is in a position, for example, to identify and testify against the people who launder money for him at a bank, corrupt police officers, airport or shipping personnel, and others. When a top organizer faces a very long mandatory or Guideline sentence, he is able to offer 'substantial assistance' and get a low sentence"

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another example of substantial assistance

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another example of substantial assistance

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"Examples of such deals were were the much reduced sentences obtained by high level cocaine traffickers who testified against former Panamanian strongman, General Manuel Noriega, when the U.S. government prosecuted him for cocaine trafficking."

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In the beginning of the article, he provides information on drug offenses and how mandatory minimum sentencing developed into becoming mandatory.

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In the first paragraph, he talks about the history of how the law became to be.

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sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentences and how they relate to eachother