Haven’t heard one way or the other about whether she has kept her nose clean since her youth. Just because she is “middle class” and drives a nice car doesn’t mean anything.
However I did hear she was arrested for several sales of heroin to undercover cops. She was not much of user, but was a dealer, and not an insignificant one either. This was not the case of a young kid arrested for buying and possessing a small amount of pot for personal consumption. She dealt heroin.
That said, if this was a first offense the penalty seems harsh. Have no details about whether she had other offenses, even as juvenile. Seems like her family could have pursued the appeals approach instead of busting her out.
Wonder who fingered her, and why?
That's for sure.
However I did hear she was arrested for several sales of heroin to undercover cops. She was not much of user, but was a dealer, and not an insignificant one either. This was not the case of a young kid arrested for buying and possessing a small amount of pot for personal consumption. She dealt heroin.
You've hit the nail on the head. She was not some ditzy 19 year old chippy who was fooled into it. She dealt hard drugs.
That said, if this was a first offense the penalty seems harsh.
Well, she was selling heroin.
And I am going to guess that in post-riots Detroit, a judge would think twice about giving a light sentence to a white girl that he would never give to a black man her age.
Seems like her family could have pursued the appeals approach instead of busting her out.
It looks like her family had two factions: one of which busted her out. Her parents were probably going the legal route.
Wonder who fingered her, and why?
Good question. I wonder if it might be an enraged relative of the dead woman whose identity she stole.
You also can’t put today’s education and mores on that time. The drug revolution had started, lots of “good kids” were being influenced by drugs. Even a lot of medical authorities didn’t think cocaine was addictive.
When they caught these kids they threw the book at them to make an example.
In our town, the “drug cartel” was composed of local businessmen. Three of them took off when the heat finally came down on them and the real bigwig actually paid a young guy who was involved to cop to the whole thing. He went to prison and got a college education. The bigwig died filthy rich and now his extremely religious son is a multi-millionare.
I’m no liberal but I would like to know what good it would have done to society, her victims, or her family for her to have been locked up for 20 yrs? As you said, it was her first offense and I feel the sentence was more than harsh.
Her boyfriend did the sale. He took her with him once and she was arrested that time.