On Thursday (July 6), Simon appeared in a New York court with a three-page letter, The New York Times reported. 'I'm really hopeful that this will be an opportunity for people to see and understand the impacts their decisions will have on people,' he said. The Wire co-creator David Simon has asked a Manhattan judge to show mercy to a man charged in the 2021 death of his friend Michael K. one of the four individuals charged in connection with Michael K.

He went on to say that he felt for Macci and his battle with addiction. The Wire creator David Simon has penned a tribute in an open essay to the show’s late actor Michael K Williams. The Wire creator David Simon had previously asked for leniency on the 71-year-old defendants behalf. BALTIMORE - The co-creator of HBOs 'The Wire' is asking for leniency from the judge. Williams, the actor who brought a hard-edge charisma to his portrayal of Omar Little, the sawed-off-shotgun-wielding stickup man on the.

Macci and hope against hope that this moment in which he finds himself might prove redemptive, that his remaining years might amount to something more, and that by the grace of love and leniency, something humane and worthy might be rescued from the tragedy.'īefore the judge announced Macci's sentence, Williams' nephew addressed the court.ĭupont choked up as he recounted delivering the news to Williams' mother that her son was dead. The Wire creator David Simon calls for leniency for man charged in actor Michael K. 'No possible good can come from incarcerating a (72-year-old) soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction and who has not engaged in street-level sales of narcotics with ambitions of success and profit but rather as someone caught up in the diaspora of addiction himself,' Simon wrote. Photo: Dia Dipasupil ( Getty Images) Addiction is an insidious disease, one which ruins lives in countless ways.

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