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| Topic | 46 y/o Black Man gets 8 YEARS in PRISON for MARIJUANA that he LEGALLY Bought!! |
| LookANinja 10/21/18 12:14:27 AM #206: | I mean he was on a long ass road trip on his way back to Oregon from Ohio. He claims he smokes the weed medically for chronic knee pain from college basketball. fair enough. Now was 3(2.8) pounds a bit excessive? probably... but he is Jamaican so who knows? But was he really trafficking the stuff? I mean, okay, if the definition for trafficking is just "Large amount over state lines" then yeah, i guess he was. But does intent to sell come with trafficking? I mean you could argue "NOBODY SMOKES 3 POUNDS HE WAS SELLING THAT SHIT" until you're blue in the face. The other side will just say "prove it." Just like in this article https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/18/jamaican-musician-sentenced-8-years-weed Prosecutors, on the other hand, decided to charge him with drug trafficking. But they didn't have a whole of evidence to back that up, aside from the fact that 2.8 pounds of marijuana is a lot for one person. The Ledger explains that Mangino "found no large sums of money, drug paraphernalia or weight measuring scale to substantiate the trafficking charge." According to Mississippi Today, an assistant district attorney argued that references to "music" in text messages found on Beadle's phone were actually code for the marijuana he was selling. However, those texts were not admitted as evidence. So was carrying all the weed dumb and illegal? Yes Was he trafficking the stuff? if the definition for trafficking is just "Large amount over state lines" then yeah, i guess he was. Did he intend to sell? Who the hell knows? Is the law dumb or not dumb? Doesn't really matter. Was the sentence harsh? Probably. At least based on the evidence. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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