informant gets 8+ years for selling an OZ

[yamaha_1fan]

This is the guy who blew the lid on the cops who killed the elderly lady in a botched raid in ATlanta.


This is his story

http://www.11alive.com/news/article...=WZhQn7guxlARiqjsQvqhoxivdDrN/1gn27t8n9YcAts=


Here he is suing the police department

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=107475


I just saw on the news he will serve at least 8 years for selling a little over an oz of marijuana to an undercover. Unbelieveable

 

[blisstonian]

Go Bulldogs!!

 

[Tony Aroma]

Those articles don't say anything about the guy selling anything or going to jail.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

Those articles don't say anything about the guy selling anything or going to jail.

No, those links are for his involvement in the raid.

I cant find any links on his arrest and sentence. I googled his name and searched a couple local TV stations including the one I saw it on. But I did see it on TV an even rewound it to make sure.

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

can you even get 8 years for selling an oz? maybe in singapore or dubai, but in the u.s? and atlanta no less, home of M.L King... go figure... where i am, you would just have to go to rehab and perhaps before that spend a couple of days in jail at most...
or you pay the law off and you are free to go.

 

[ureapwhatusow]

This is a fucking outrage

HE IS A PROFESSIONAL SNITCH

and they used some unreliable street douchebag's information to perform raids?


then when they reliaze how fucked up they are they give him 8 year for an ounce

cant we sent this scumbag and the peice o shit police who took short cuts and murders civilians to iran to become citizens?

well for the informant i dontthink it will be easier to hide the fact hes a rat whren hes all over the news

its gonna be a violent or lonely 8 years s

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

ureapwhatusow, what rat r u talking about? is not the guy going to jail the one who ´blew the lid on the cops´ who planted marijuana on an elderly lady´s house after the pigs had killed her? if he is a snitch, would not that mean that he snitched on the police officers who murdered the lady and planted fake evidence on her?

8 years for an oz would then mean the law is taking vengance on this guy for having done what was right, snitch on those murderer cops.

or am i totally confused?

 

[hardhat22]

can you even get 8 years for selling an oz? maybe in singapore or dubai, but in the u.s? and atlanta no less, home of M.L King... go figure... where i am, you would just have to go to rehab and perhaps before that spend a couple of days in jail at most...
or you pay the law off and you are free to go.

Paz,our prisons are run by corporations now,and they are making big money for each prisoner.The lengthier sentences are becoming commonplace here.The longer they hold us,the more money the government pays them.Sweet deal huh?

It was just announced this morning by the Associated Press that our vice president Cheney and former attorney General Gonzales has been indicted
on charges of "engaging in an organized criminal activity......"

I apologize for not having a link.I went to get it for you and the story had disappeared from the AP.Google can't seem to find it for me either.Isn't censorship wonderful?Luckily I saved the web page to my hardrive,having experienced these disappearing articles before.

Apologies for the long post but people in the U.S. really need to know what is happening here and the kind of "Justice and Democracy" we are trying to force onto the world.This article is dated yesterday,but it only showed up for about 2 minutes on my homepage this morning.Just long enough to read and save.
Peace

( Found the link)
http://start.localnet.com/article.php?article=D94HOCQ00.html

Cheney, former AG Gonzales indicted on charges brought by controversial Texas prosecutor
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer
(AP) 10:18:11 PM (ET), Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (McALLEN, Texas)
Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

The indictment returned Monday has not yet been signed by the presiding judge, and no action can be taken until that happens.

The seven indictments made public in Willacy County on Tuesday included one naming state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and some targeting public officials connected to District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra's own legal battles.

Regarding the indictments targeting the public officials, Guerra said, "the grand jury is the one that made those decisions, not me."

Guerra himself was under indictment for more than a year and half until a judge dismissed the indictments last month. Guerra's tenure ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.

Guerra said the prison-related charges against Cheney and Gonzales are a national issue and experts from across the country testified to the grand jury.

Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.

Gonzales' attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, "This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize." He said he hoped Texas authorities would take steps to stop "this abuse of the criminal justice system."

Another indictment released Tuesday accuses Lucio of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies. Guerra announced his intention to investigate Lucio's prison consulting early last year.

Lucio's attorney, Michael Cowen, released a scathing statement accusing Guerra of settling political scores in his final weeks in office.

"Senator Lucio is completely innocent and has done nothing wrong," Cowen said, adding that he would file a motion to quash the indictment this week.

Willacy County has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups. Guerra has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts.

Last month, a Willacy County grand jury indicted The GEO Group, a Florida private prison company, on a murder charge in the death of a prisoner days before his release. The three-count indictment alleged The GEO Group allowed other inmates to beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. to death with padlocks stuffed into socks. The death happened in 2001 at the Raymondville facility.

In 2006, a jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa's family $47.5 million in a civil judgment. The Cheney-Gonzales indictment makes reference to the de la Rosa case.

None of the indictments released Tuesday had been signed by Presiding Judge Manuel Banales of the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region.

Last month, Banales dismissed indictments that charged Guerra with extorting money from a bail bond company and using his office for personal business. An appeals court had earlier ruled that a special prosecutor was improperly appointed to investigate Guerra.

After Guerra's office was raided as part of the investigation early last year, he camped outside the courthouse in a borrowed camper with a horse, three goats and a rooster. He threatened to dismiss hundreds of cases because he believed local law enforcement had aided the investigation against him.

The indictments were first reported by KRGV-TV.

___

Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this report.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

Yes, you can get 8 years. I found a link to NORML and according to a 2006 PDF they have, over 1 oz is 1-10 years. Most crimes actually have a pretty high maximum sentence. Sentencing guidlines are used to score a defendant out. This usually includes previous offenses, amount of charges currently facing etc. Its a big formula to come up with a sentence. Of course the judge has judgement and can go above or below guidelines. Usually the guidelines are way lower than the maximum.

The guy was probably a snitch snitching on other dealers. But he did snitch on the police and now hes getting jammed for 8 years for an oz.