Man got life imprisonment for selling $ 20 marijuana
A Louisiana resident arrested and sentenced to life in prison for selling $ 20 of marijuana was released from prison after 12 years in prison. ABC News writes about it.
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Faith Winslow was released from Louisiana State Prison in Angola on Wednesday, December 16, and returned home after serving 12 years in prison.
“I was so happy to be free,” Winslow said. — Life imprisonment for two bags of marijuana? I never thought this could happen.”
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Winslow was convicted under state recidivist law. His case has received attention as Louisiana grapples with criminal justice issues.
In 2008, in Shreveport, Winslow was approached by undercover police officers and asked where they could get marijuana. Winslow took the bike, drove off somewhere, found some marijuana, and returned to sell it to the officers. He was paid $ 20 and was also given $ 5 for tea so he could buy himself some food.
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Winslow had already been convicted of three previous nonviolent crimes after the age of 17 and before the age of 36, which contributed to the application of the state law on repeat offenders against him.
Project Innocence in New Orleans took over his case and appealed against life imprisonment. Innocence Project Director Ji Park said Winslow received “an obscenely excessive sentence, given his circumstances and previous crimes. And today we are correcting this unconstitutional and inhuman verdict. "
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