If you are selling you’re going to keep selling. I think Stephanie George’s sentence was dead right. And she was involved with other druggies and half a kilo of coke is not a small personal stash. Hers or her dudes. After two arrests for selling crack it’s clear she wasn’t changing her lifestyle and would have kept on selling crack and possibly moving some of her guy friends’ coke he hid in her place. Her life hadn’t changed and the drug people she associated with she was still associating with. She kept selling after the first time arrested, and would have kept selling. Many sell to pay for their own habit.
She got the proper sentence.
Drug dealers shouldn’t have life sentences for dealing death. They should be executed.
I will start by saying I do not like minimum guidelines forced on judges, but I have no sympathy for dopers. Can’t do the time don’t do the crime. Pick your “friends” carefully.
2) When it comes to some drug convictions, I am willing to consider that some people have been treated unfairly. That is sad.
3) As a Conservative, I say "the law is the law". I do not approve of commuting sentences, I do not want to hear about heart-breaking cases. If people want to work to change the laws, that is fine. But these young people serving life without parole? I don't like it when Obama ignores the law, and so I will not entertain the thought that the law should be "overlooked" on behalf of these fine upstanding citizens.
More than 50 lbs. of coke / crack in two deals? Sorry, but any potential of my having sympathy for his situation was lost when they mentioned the 8 and 15 kg weight of what he did and then later tried to sell. That’s a million $ illegal business he was running.
The message my kids got was that, if they got into trouble with the law, they were on their own, unless they were being prosecuted for political, religious, or racial reasons, i.e., for being white like George Zimmerman. They got the message, unlike Trayvon Martin.
He’s a pusher. He’s as much a murderer as the guy who pulls the trigger.
He’s a pusher. He’s as much a murderer as the guy who pulls the trigger.