Case DIH-0263
Ellison Lee Hutchison Jr.
Sold heroin to a Columbia man who died of an overdose in January 2012.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Missouri
- State
- Missouri
- Year of death
- 2012
- Year sentenced
- 2013
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Missouri’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Missouri in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govColumbia man sentenced 20 years distributing heroin resulting death
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