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Apr 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The judge who is deciding the fate of actor Michael Douglas’s son, Cameron, called the sentencing hearing which began today his “last chance to make it” as he began the proceedings. Cameron is to be sentenced today in Manhattan for possession of large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamines. The 31 year old plead guilty to those charges earlier in the year, when he was arrested in July in a Manhattan hotel, and admitted in January that he did indeed deal methamphetamines as well as cocaine. The charges which he plead guilty to have a mandatory 10 year sentence, but the actor and several others are begging the judge for a lesser sentence.

According to a report issued by the Associated Press, Federal Judge Richard Berman hinted today (Tuesday) that leniency had its limits and added that the letters written on Cameron’s behalf failed to note the damage drugs do to society. The five-page letter, penned in an elegant script, joins others written to the court by Cameron Douglas’ high-profile supporters, including grandfather Kirk Douglas, stepmother Catherine Zeta-Jones and NBA executive Pat Riley.

“I love my son, but I’m not blind to his actions. … I don’t want to see him break,” the actor told the federal judge in a handwritten letter made public Monday. Michael Douglas cites Cameron’s childhood in a “bad marriage” and “the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.” “Cameron found his family in the gang mentality,” his father wrote. With his actor father in court, Douglas listened as Berman described his drug abuse since age 13. The judge noted Cameron has been sober in prison since last August, the longest stint drug-free since his teen-age years.