Posted on 01/11/2020 9:07:23 PM PST by BackRoads775
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the 12-year sentence of a man convicted for having a cellphone in jail on Thursday. Willie Nash was originally booked in the Newton County Jail for a misdemeanor charge when he asked a jailer to charge his smartphone. The jailer confiscated the phone and brought it to the sheriff’s deputy in charge. According to court documents, Nash originally denied the phone was his. The deputy sheriff unlocked the phone using a code Nash provided and found pictures of Nash and text messages sent that day confirming his location as “in jail.”
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Huh? How is this a “crime” (rather than a prison infraction), let alone one with such a ridiculous sentence?
For real?
If you can charge a man for 12 years of his life for a cell phone, how can you expect a crumb of mercy from God?
This is why anyone with an IQ above the low 20s avoids the Deep South as they would airborne Ebola.
[eyeroll]
It sounds like the booking officer is at fault. How did he get booked in with his phone? He obviously was ignorant of the offense and made no attempt to conceal his possession of the phone.
Was that his only crime?
Someone in authority enjoys punishing people a little too much.
After reading the article and with the facts as presented, I realy think this is a gross mis-use of law. 12 years for a cell phone? Methinks that he should have been searched prior to being put in the pokey...isn’t that standard procedure? All watches, wallet, money and cell phones put into an envelope?
When the law is an ass...
Yeah...the guy was in jail back in 2001 for seven years for burglary, but since then (2008) had at least never been caught again, or straightened his life out...why he was arrested I either missed or was not reported...
From the headline I thought it was young female contest winner imposing the sentence.
This should get a Federal appeal for being stupid.
The this screams for a pardon.
Cops, judges, politicians, bureaucrats .... it is going to get very ugly for them and their people.
I’d like to hear both sides of this story...there HAS to be more to it.
No convictions since 2001. This arrest was a misdemeanor. He is married with wife and three kids. But now, will have to spend the next 12 years in jail, for possessing that phone. That’s one strict Judge.
If they found he committed no crimes with the phone, it should have been small punishments for lying and having contraband.
Its not a 12-year crime. i’m a tough on crime guy who believes in executing people inmthe old school timeframe and i don’t care what gender or age they are if it’s deliberate murder.
This is ridiculous for contraband violation and lying about contraband.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, an IRS agent got only 7 years for raping a 21 year old office intern who he also handcuffed and shoved a glock down her throat.
We can’t force our response to be that there HAS to be something wrong because of whatever reason.
It’s not even difficult to believe.
And that’s the scary part.
ROFL
Did you READ the whole article?
That’s one way to get both sides :)
And there isn’t another side really.
The penalty is 3 to 15 years for having a cell phone in jail.
I can see why in some cases 3 year is warranted.
This, however, was crazy.
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