John (Bread) Bass
Dog Pound
High-Volume Detroit Drug Gang
Pontiac, Canton, Ohio and Muncie, IN
involves multiple killings and eleven death eligible defendants who were charged
in a four victim (continuing criminal enterprise) Detroit drug/murder case under
21 U.S.C. §848(a)(1)(A). Of the eleven, only Bass was chosen to face a federal
capital prosecution. All involved are African-American. A pretrial appeal
involved the issue of discovery of Department of Justice charging practices in
capital cases. In a per curiam opinion, the United States Supreme Court
reversed the order granting discovery. United States v. Bass, 122 S.Ct. 2389
(2002). John Bass and his brother Patrick allegedly started a drug gang called
the "Dog Pound" (because members owned many pit bulls), which sold crack
in Michigan and Ohio. John Bass is charged with arranging two murders - of
his brother and a rival
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
