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WakeOfAshes
Posts: 21,665 destroyer of motherfuckers
Lock this bitch up! give her the chair!
http://www.oklahomawatch.org/story.php?sid=28
25-year-old mother of four's drug conviction and 10-year sentence reveal challenges of prosecuting nonviolent offenders For $31 of marijuana, Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow will serve 10 years in prison, will live without her four young children and husband and will no longer work in nursing homes.
Three days before Christmas, Spottedcrow, also known as inmate No. 622641, started her stint at Eddie Warrior Correctional Center.
Spottedcrow heard what to expect from re-offenders she met in county jail and while waiting for a transfer from Mabel Bassett, the maximum-security prison all female inmates enter for assessments.
“I’m nervous about coming altogether because it is prison, and I get nervous around people I don’t know,” said Spottedcrow, 25. “But I like to be prepared, and people said don’t get too comfortable here or you’ll be here longer. Don’t make too many friends. Come and do your time and get out.”
‘It was lenient’
On Dec. 31, 2009, Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, sold a “dime bag” of marijuana to a police informant from Starr’s home in Kingfisher, according to court records. Starr handled the transaction and asked her 9-year-old grandson—Spottedcrow’s son—for some dollar bills so she could make change for the $11 sale.
On Jan. 14, 2010, the same informant returned and bought $20 worth of marijuana from Spottedcrow.
The two were arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance. Because Spottedcrow’s children were in the home, the charge of possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor was added. Spottedcrow said she is not a drug user but had on a few occasions smoked marijuana.
“It just seemed like easy money,” she said. “I was home on vacation and it was just there, and I thought we could get some extra money. I’ve lost everything because of it.”
Spottedcrow and her mother, 50, were offered plea deals of two years in prison, she said. But she was afraid of her mother going to prison based on of her poor health.
Because neither had prior criminal records and the drug amount was low, they took the gamble of entering into a blind plea before a judge, meaning they pleaded guilty with no prior sentencing arrangement.
Kingfisher County did not have a drug court at that time. Drug courts are specialty treatment courts offered to non-violent offenders.
On Sept. 23, Starr received a 30-year suspended sentence and five years of drug and alcohol assessments. Nearly a month later, Spottedcrow was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution and two years for possession, to run concurrently. She will be up for parole in 2014.
http://www.oklahomawatch.org/story.php?sid=28
25-year-old mother of four's drug conviction and 10-year sentence reveal challenges of prosecuting nonviolent offenders For $31 of marijuana, Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow will serve 10 years in prison, will live without her four young children and husband and will no longer work in nursing homes.
Three days before Christmas, Spottedcrow, also known as inmate No. 622641, started her stint at Eddie Warrior Correctional Center.
Spottedcrow heard what to expect from re-offenders she met in county jail and while waiting for a transfer from Mabel Bassett, the maximum-security prison all female inmates enter for assessments.
“I’m nervous about coming altogether because it is prison, and I get nervous around people I don’t know,” said Spottedcrow, 25. “But I like to be prepared, and people said don’t get too comfortable here or you’ll be here longer. Don’t make too many friends. Come and do your time and get out.”
‘It was lenient’
On Dec. 31, 2009, Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, sold a “dime bag” of marijuana to a police informant from Starr’s home in Kingfisher, according to court records. Starr handled the transaction and asked her 9-year-old grandson—Spottedcrow’s son—for some dollar bills so she could make change for the $11 sale.
On Jan. 14, 2010, the same informant returned and bought $20 worth of marijuana from Spottedcrow.
The two were arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance. Because Spottedcrow’s children were in the home, the charge of possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor was added. Spottedcrow said she is not a drug user but had on a few occasions smoked marijuana.
“It just seemed like easy money,” she said. “I was home on vacation and it was just there, and I thought we could get some extra money. I’ve lost everything because of it.”
Spottedcrow and her mother, 50, were offered plea deals of two years in prison, she said. But she was afraid of her mother going to prison based on of her poor health.
Because neither had prior criminal records and the drug amount was low, they took the gamble of entering into a blind plea before a judge, meaning they pleaded guilty with no prior sentencing arrangement.
Kingfisher County did not have a drug court at that time. Drug courts are specialty treatment courts offered to non-violent offenders.
On Sept. 23, Starr received a 30-year suspended sentence and five years of drug and alcohol assessments. Nearly a month later, Spottedcrow was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution and two years for possession, to run concurrently. She will be up for parole in 2014.
Comments
How does shit like this happen? How can anyone in the right mind think "Oh... 31$ of weed with 4 kids? LOCK HER UP!!!".
Oh and Oklahoma? perhaps you didnt get the memo but the other 49 fucking states decriminalized marijuana. and can legally grow, possess, and smoke it
When did weed become nationally decriminalized? Hasn't happened here in Illinois. Hasn't happened in Georgia. I'm curious as to where you got your misinformation.
she should start bilking hundreds of people out of hundreds of millions of dollars in hedge fund schemes like a respectable criminal.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_US_state
And I have heard the application to get a medical marijuana card is a joke. Just go to your dr and say "unfortunately i think i've got that cold where weed is the only cure. bummer
20 years for 31 dollars worth of dirt weed is fucking ridiculous and the judge that handed down that type of sentence should be removed from the bench.
You are in that part of society that would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute someone for 31 dollars worth of weed and then house them for 20 to 30 years just to "teach them druggies a lesson".
Here's an economic lesson for you. If they had put her on intensive probation for a few years it would be profitable to prosecute as she would have fines, probation fees, etc. She also would have been responsible for her own living arraingments. By sentencing her to 30 years, we, the tax paying public, have to foot the bill for her housing, medical, legal, etc. as well as providing for her children which are now wards of the state. None of it makes any financial sense. None of it.