Five to 30. He was well known. From 2015:
Posted on 04/25/2017 4:00:47 PM PDT by BBell
A 66-year-old Angie man is facing as long as 30 years in prison after being convicted by a Washington Parish jury of selling four oxycodone pain pills to a police informant. Henry James McMillan is be sentenced by Judge Donald Fendlason of the 22nd Judicial District Court on May 8, the North Shore district attorney's office said.
McMillan was arrested after selling four OxyContin pills at his home to a confidential informant for the Washington Parish drug task force. The transaction, which took place on July 29, 2015, was recorded on videotape, prosecutors said. The informant also gave McMillan's co-defendant, William Kennedy, $10 for arranging the meeting.
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These guys should be getting the death penalty, along with other drug dealers.
Louisiana apparently needs more help at their ‘Angola’ prison farm.
It’s their historic pattern that when they need more prison labor that they start prosecuting misdemeanors as felonies and then the sentences are absurdly severe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/
Ah, the Prohibitionist Mind.
Don't worry, I'm sure a rapist or someone convicted of attempted murder can be released back onto the streets in order to make room in our prison system for this real criminal...
The article doesn’t mention what he was planning to do with the other 1600 pills. Be interesting to find out.
That is ridiculous.
There are people over 60 amd retirees selling their drugs and I dont have a problem with them. Kinda don’t blame them.
I want LEO to after organized crime.
Some dork selling his pills means nothing to me.
Not enough detail here to see if this was a “righteous” bust or an engineered entrapment to get some poor sucker to sell several of his prescribed pain pills.
In any case, the state may make it easy for the convicted to delay filing for social security until age 70 to maximize his benefits.
Five to 30. He was well known. From 2015:
How much per pill? Heroin is probably cheaper.
He’s just an undocumented pharmacist. We need to bring people like him out of the shadows by granting him a doctorate of pharmacy so he can pay taxes and get right with the law.
Henry James McMillan, 64, a resident of Angie, charged with selling Schedule II drugs. He remains in jail with his bond set at $75,000.
Look at his picture. The man is a hot mess and an idiot
Having worked in a big city ER for years I've seen the ravages of drugs...up close and personal.Thirty years sounds about right...particularly if he's a repeat offender.
Lets try to be consistent.
Should we ignore immigration law because there are rapists out there that need to be in prison?
Should we ignore theft because there are rapists out there that need to be in prison?
The man broke the law should we ignore it because there are rapists out there that need to be in prison?
Fine, you disagree with that particular law, but there are people that disagree with punishment of illegal immigration, theft and, believe it or not, rape.
I don’t think the man should get 30 years but I do think he should be punished and figure out who his supplier is and wack them too, if it is a licensed provider, two wacks, a revoked license. Opiates kill more people than traffic accidents, not really a victimless crime.
“....as long as 30 years in prison....”
For the “reading challenged”, the max is 30 years but the actual sentencing will be on May 8. Let’s hear the “whining and teeth gnashing” when it’s your darling son or daughter that ODs on his products.
Don't try to conflate actual crime—someone infringing on someone else's rights—with arbitrary law fomented by nanny staters.
Whenever any arbitrary law is permitted, it opens the floodgates, because if such law can be rationalized by people on the Right, the same arguments apply for those on the Left.
In a free country, authority is not automatically legitimate. For a law to be moral, it must be able to justify itself on the basis of infringement on the rights of others. Anything less is arbitrary, and antithetical to Liberty.
Real crimes are those that infringe on the rights of others. Contraband law—Prohibition—is simply Tyrannical law rationalized by nanny-staters.
So let's try to be consistent and admit that anyone who supposedly believes in minimal government, the Fourth Amendment, and so on, has no business supporting whimsical edicts, the enforcement of which requires an ever-expanding police surveillance state, trampling of Constitutional privacy rights, no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, and every other abuse that automatically accompanies a bloated nanny state.
Supporting arbitrary law enables Tyranny, and there's a huge difference between that view of State power, versus a State which prosecutes real crimes of force, fraud, and negligence.
So, yes, I'll be consistent and never have any respect for laws which are Tyrannical on their face, and which require me to abandon my belief in minimal government, in protections under the Fourth Amendment, and in peoples' right to conduct commerce with one another, and to pursue happiness as they see fit, not how I see fit.
Blindly saying "it's just the law" and that people should submit on that basis is the stuff of totalitarian Regimes.
The Prohibitionist mind can perform amazing somersaults of rationalization in its effort to equate phony state-declared "crime" with actual crime.
Education, not legislation is the answer. The only idea dumber than Decriminalization is Prohibition itself.
Nobody deserves to be looking at 30 years in jail for selling alcohol, a plant, or a medicine to another informed adult that wants to purchase it. To think that they do is Tyranny incarnate.
Prohibition never has worked, and it never will work, and on top of that, it's f-----g Tyrannical. So you'll just have to call me "inconsistent" if you want me to embrace Tyranny from some self-righteous nanny-staters who think it's fine and dandy just because "it's the law"...
There are child molesters that don’t get that long!
Jury Nullification. If I was called to serve on this case, the best the prosecutor could hope for is a hung jury.
I had a buddy give me a couple of oxycontin once when I was in severe pain. He should in in prison? Death? Really?
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