Tag: crack cocaine
You Have The Right To An Attorney, But You'll Just Have To Pay For One Yourself, You Crackhead.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 06:48:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Anyone who's seen any crime dramas knows that criminal suspects have the right to an attorney and if you can't afford one, the government has to provide you with one. But those rights end once you've been convicted and sentenced for a crime, unless you can find a lenient judge. This is the dilemma facing a number of federal prisoners, largely poor and uneducated people in jail for crack offenses, who are finding it almost impossible to get the legal help they need to deal with their appeals.
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Follow the rules you'll have mad bread to break up not 15 19 years on the wakeup
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 05:18:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
After a monumental Supreme Court decision regarding sentencing disparity in Cocaine vs. Crack sentencing in December, the first inmates walked out of prison free men on Monday.
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