If anyone should know not to help someone buy drugs, you would think it would be a former federal judge. Especially a former federal judge known for giving defendants harsh sentences.
“When I look back at the circumstances which brought me here, it makes me sick to think I did them … They were illegal, wrong, foolish. … The only thing I can say is that I’m so very sorry,” Jack Camp said.
Former Atlanta judge Camp met an exotic dancer at the Goldrush Showbar after she did a table dance for him. He paid for sex and they began doing marijuana, cocaine and a synthetic form of heroin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The woman later begun cooperating with FBI agents who set Camp up to make a drug deal. Camp asked the dancer to buy drugs with $160 her gave her. Camp showed up for the drug deal armed with two handguns, prosecutor Deborah Sue Mayer noted.
“He engaged in repeated criminal conduct over four months … This was not a one-time thing. This was not a one-time lapse in impulse control,” Mayer said. Jack Camp contended that it was in fact a lapse in judgment related to undiagnosed bipolar disorder, depression and brain damage from a 2000 bicycle accident which were all exacerbated due to improper prescriptions.
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