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In reply to the discussion: White House: America's prisons more costly than helpful [View all]Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)He served a total of 6 months in jail for 6 marijuana, 2 crack and 2 gun possession charges. A misdemeanor guilty plea wouldn't have landed him in prison for 13 years.
You want to portray the guy as a victim of a state that seems to have gone out of its way to keep him OUT of prison. He wasn't even charged as a habitual offender, when he was first eligible.
NOW he gets caught and the state holds him accountable for his choice and he's suddenly a victim of the drug laws?
It shouldn't be a crime but it is. He got numerous breaks, even when he was a felon in possession of a gun.
He made a choice not just to break the law he'd broken 7 previous times but also to reject a plea deal for another misdemeanor.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for him. He's not a victim, he's a guy who was never truly held accountable for breaking the same law over and over again. This time he got hit with a sentence enhancement that he'd earned with not with this convictions but five, FIVE, convictions ago and suddenly he's the poster boy for what's wrong with drug sentencing?