Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana

[suhl]

look at this bullshit

Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the mandatory 55-year prison sentence that a lower court imposed on a man who was convicted of carrying a handgun during three marijuana deals in Utah.

By refusing to hear the case, the U.S. Supreme Court ensured that 27-year-old Weldon Angelos will spend just about the rest of his life behind bars for selling three eight-ounce bags of marijuana to an undercover informant.

As his attorneys noted, the sentence he will serve is harsher than the sentence for raping a child â?? or the sentence for detonating a bomb aboard an aircraft.

Even the federal judge who was required to issue the mandatory minimum sentence called it â??unjust, cruel, and even irrational.â?� Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court let the sentence stand without comment. You can read more about this abrogation of justice here.

More examples of unjust punishment....


1. Mitchell Lawrence: This 17-year-old high school student with no prior record received a two-year prison sentence for selling $20 worth of marijuana to a Massachusetts undercover police officer.

2. Unnamed Florida college student: The 19-year-old was raped by his cellmate â?? a violent sexual offender â?? as he served the first of four weekend sentences for delivering marijuana, a felony offense.

3. Ryan Wilson: The 22-year-old died after being shot with a Taser stun gun by Colorado police, who were investigating whether Wilson was cultivating marijuana plants.

4. Anthony Diotaiuto: The 23-year-old was shot 10 times in the head, chest, and limbs by a Florida SWAT team that later found a little over an ounce of marijuana in his home.

5. Clayton Helriggle: The 23-year-old died in the arms of his roommate after being shot in a â??no knockâ?� raid by Ohio police, who later found a small amount of marijuana in his house.

6. Jonathan Magbie: The 27-year-old quadriplegic died in a Washington, D.C., jail while serving a 10-day sentence for marijuana possession because the facility could not provide the medical care he needed.

7. Tyrone Brown: The 33-year-old received a life sentence from a Texas judge for testing positive for marijuana while on probation for a $2 stickup committed when he was 17.

8. Lester Siler: The 44-year-old was brutalized by five rogue Tennessee police officers who suspected him of selling drugs. Siler was beaten and held at gunpoint, had his head held underwater in a toilet, and was threatened with shooting and electrocution.

http://www.mpp.org/site/c.glKZLeMQIs....BF78/Home.htm

suhl Reviewed by suhl on 12-13-2006. Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana look at this bullshit Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the mandatory 55-year prison sentence that a lower court imposed on a man who was convicted of carrying a handgun during three marijuana deals in Utah. By refusing to hear the case, the U.S. Supreme Court ensured that 27-year-old Weldon Angelos will spend just about the rest of his life behind bars for selling three eight-ounce bags of marijuana to an undercover informant. Rating: 5

[bavet]

That shit makes me sick.

[4gan2ja0]

fuck thats gay, they should have no right to do that

[orangeman]

I honestly wish everyone in control of the war on drugs just got ambushed and shot to death.

[bud breath420]

thats bullshit.. fuck that

[Cheery Cherry]

I sometimes wonder if the authorities have some type of control over the sales (or the amount of sales) of pot or they focus more closely on sales of pot because pot makes most people think out of the box or expand the minds, which would make the authorities difficult to control society. I mean, I look around my neighborhood and other hard drugs (that doesn't make you question or think about anything going on around them) are easily available but pot has been very difficult to find. I don't know...I just think it's odd.

[suhl]

yes, i posted something like that in the polls. i think a big reason weed and the harmless hallucinegons are illegal is because they promote independent thought and i think the governmenth hates independent thought

[RedLocks]

this shit really makes me sick. before i was looking at penalties for marijuana related crimes, that made me sick too.. It is a god damn plant, that doesn't harm people, is not addictive, and there is no violence involved with it really.. If you look at the list from the November Coalition, some of that shit makes me sick, I mean really really pisses me off. All the assholes on it that are in jail for crap like coke, meth, x, etc.., I could give a shit less, they deserve to die.. but i saw one guy there, 20 year sentence for conspiracy to sell marijuana.. 20 YEARS for not even selling marijuana. cops tried to set him up and he didn't go for it so it turned into conspiracy charge... that just has to be the stupidest thing i have ever heard...

[RedLocks]

just got done looking through the November coalition list.. there is a man in Alabama that was convicted in 1992, he is serving a 99 year sentence for buying a pound of herb....

[Skink]

The title is hard to comprehend,gotta be way more to the story...