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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

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Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The parole board thinks he should stay there.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240118131524/https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2024/01/parole-denied-for-68-year-old-in-alabama-a-life-sentence-for-growing-marijuana.html

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  • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
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    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.

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      Kind of makes you want to stop obeying laws, doesn’t it?

      • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
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        I’m a commoner and I haven’t lobbied any lawmakers, so the law still applies to me

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        Get out of here troll

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          I think the voting system has established that you’re the troll.

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            I still think it’s you. A lot of foreign actors want the U.S. system to collapse. Maybe you’re not, but your earlier comment sure sounded like it. People are downvoting me bcz they misunderstood what my comment was directed at. I actually agree with the sentiment, but ignoring all of our laws outright is a good way to have no government at all.

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          Go to bed, you have a 12h shift at 6am tommorow.

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            I do not, I woke up at 8:50 this morning.

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      and biden is out running for president too after promising to legalize and police reform and firing staffers for using cannabis

      people seem to still support him too

      US elections are fucking insane

      like watching clones dressed in different skins begging for votes with whatever empty promises they think and know the populace will eat up

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    art source : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2Z8Ke

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      Didn’t return your grocery cart? Straight to jail.

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        “Stray to Yale.”

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    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.

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      And dirt they made sure to water.

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    Don’t break the law

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      I guess you must be trolling. Do you think 40 years for growing Cannabis to be justified?

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    What could the parole board’s justification for denial possibly be? I don’t see any risk from this guy, unless there’s something more nefarious than 2.2 lbm of pot going on.

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      The cruelty is the point, as they say.

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    Didn’t Biden pardon marijuana convictions? Or am I just high?

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