The basketball star turned poster child for mandatory minimum sentencing

This week, American Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to lessen mandatory minimum sentences for low-level and non-violent drug offenders. For the past 27 years, these offenders have faced a "one-size fits all" punishment system that Holder has called ineffective and unsustainable. As the law is on its way out, Day 6 takes a look back to where it all started: with a rising basketball star named Len Bias.

Bias is regarded as one of the best college basketball players in American history, but he died of a cocaine overdose just days after he was drafted to the Boston Celtics in 1986. Instantly, his legacy shifted from sports superstar, to poster child for America's war on drugs. Eric Sterling was legal counsel to the U.S. House Committee at the time, and he joins Day 6 to talk about the influence Len Bias' death has had on the US justice system.