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[SIZE=-1]The Republican - MassLive.com, MA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor][/SIZE][SIZE=-1] told defense lawyer Thomas Lesser that he came to the hearing with "a bad taste in his mouth" toward the defendant, though Shooltz faced little exposure to a jail sentence in the case. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Shooltz was indicted three years after police in Amherst were called to his apartment in 2004; a friend had died of a methadone overdose, according to court records. While there, investigators found piles of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, vitamins and other pills. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Regan told Ponsor Shooltz had a cornucopia of substances in his refrigerator and elsewhere and had cultivated an environment tolerant of drug use. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"This wasn't a small case of a student who wanted to pump iron and ... share steroids with his friends," O'Regan said, adding that Shooltz imported steroids from China and sold them over the Internet. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Lesser argued that although the pills were plentiful, they were really just enough for personal use by a half-dozen people. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"If you're going to use steroids, you use 20 to 30 pills a day for a three-month course," Lesser said, later focusing on Shooltz's lack of a criminal record after a series of arrests in his late teens. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Shooltz has since landed a lucrative job as a salesman, an apartment in Quincy and a long-term girlfriend, Lesser said. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Ponsor told lawyers he was considering sentencing him to community confinement for six months because he was afraid straight probation would send the wrong message to the public. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Six months in a halfway house to see how the other half lives is not such a bad thing," Ponsor said, noting that no one submitted letters of support on Shooltz's behalf, as is the custom in federal criminal sentencings [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]The Republican - MassLive.com, MA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor][/SIZE][SIZE=-1] told defense lawyer Thomas Lesser that he came to the hearing with "a bad taste in his mouth" toward the defendant, though Shooltz faced little exposure to a jail sentence in the case. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Shooltz was indicted three years after police in Amherst were called to his apartment in 2004; a friend had died of a methadone overdose, according to court records. While there, investigators found piles of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, vitamins and other pills. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Regan told Ponsor Shooltz had a cornucopia of substances in his refrigerator and elsewhere and had cultivated an environment tolerant of drug use. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"This wasn't a small case of a student who wanted to pump iron and ... share steroids with his friends," O'Regan said, adding that Shooltz imported steroids from China and sold them over the Internet. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Lesser argued that although the pills were plentiful, they were really just enough for personal use by a half-dozen people. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"If you're going to use steroids, you use 20 to 30 pills a day for a three-month course," Lesser said, later focusing on Shooltz's lack of a criminal record after a series of arrests in his late teens. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Shooltz has since landed a lucrative job as a salesman, an apartment in Quincy and a long-term girlfriend, Lesser said. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Ponsor told lawyers he was considering sentencing him to community confinement for six months because he was afraid straight probation would send the wrong message to the public. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Six months in a halfway house to see how the other half lives is not such a bad thing," Ponsor said, noting that no one submitted letters of support on Shooltz's behalf, as is the custom in federal criminal sentencings [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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