Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The parole board thinks he should stay there.
  • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
    12·
    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, Trump’s a free man, goose stepping around in his fucking lift shoes, with 91 Federal charges against him. This country is so backwards.

  • appel@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    This stuff just makes my blood boil. Those 3 assholes on the parole board are complete sociopaths. There’s absolutely no justice here.

    • kool_newt@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Someday we’ll learn that these types of positions are only ever occupied by sociopaths, psychopaths, sadists, and those full of hate. Then we’ll realize that the institutions they are part of were designed by the same type of people. Then hopefully finally we’ll realize that every state institution was designed by this same group that believes they know the right way for everything and feel entitled to force their ways on everyone else.

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Well, political positions, yes. But there are tons of government employees around the country that are just normal people working at a regulatory agency. The overwhelming majority of them. They’re just doing their job.

        At least for now. SCOTUS is very close to changing that.

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    That law provides several different levels of trafficking, and Hotchkiss was convicted under the lowest level – having between 2.2 lbs and 100lbs. That weight includes all parts of the plant, root and stem and all.

    40 years, jesus fucking CHRIST.

    • ElleChaise@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      An old pot grower’s adage goes something like: if the sentencing minimum is for between 1-99 plants, you might as well grow 99.

      People like Bud serve as the real life example for this kind of saying sadly.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      This is stupid, why is the lowest charge range so big. 2.2 lb to 100 lb that is a huge range and you’re telling me there is ranges higher than that? He already has life in prison the hell do they do with the higher ranges

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      He literally does not have the legal power to do that.

      Biden has pardoned a lot of federal marijuana charges, but a core part of the Constitution is that the federal government’s authority to interfere in state justice systems is very limited.