Posted on 07/09/2005 10:01:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A federal judge ordered a 90-year-old woman and her 60-year-old son jailed without bail on drug charges, saying they might represent a danger to the community if freed.
Lucious Westry, also known as "Big "Mama," and son Calvin Westry pleaded innocent Friday. Defense attorneys asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Bert Milling Jr. to let them stay with Calvin Westry's daughter until the case is resolved, but he refused.
"I'm not concerned about a risk of flight," the magistrate judge said. "I am concerned about the danger to the public because of a long-standing drug activity in that community."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gloria Bedwell presented evidence that Lucious Westry is the matriarch of a crime family that engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to sell street drugs, including crack, and prescription medications, such as OxyContin, from their home.
Nine others, mostly relatives of the Westrys, also face drug charges.
GrandMa Nasty, It's 10 o'clcck, Do you know where your kids are?
MoM: They outs on da corner selling crack and weed or they better be.
90 years old with a name like Lucious!!!!!!!!
Somehow I had always thought that the principle was "innocent until proven guilty" and that the sole purpose of bail was to guarantee appearance at court.
Do we have a new constitutional principle which allows preventive detention of a citizen in order to protect the community?
Least I is workin fo a livin, Judge. I ain't suckin up to no poloticians, like you is!
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