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 Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession 
#12168477 - 03/09/10 12:21 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession
March 8, 2010 - rawstory.com
It's as if John Sinclair were never freed.
For being caught with just over a quarter pound of pot, 54-year-old Henry Walter Wooten will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars, thanks to a jury in Tyler, Texas.
His prosecutor, Smith County Assistant District Attorney Richard Vance, originally sought a sentence of 99 years over the 4.6 ounces of marijuana police found in Wooten's vehicle.
Wooten was reportedly caught smoking pot within 1,000 feet of a day care center. Tipped off by the smell, police would later search the man's vehicle, only to discover his cannabis stash and a digital scale, according to The Tyler Morning Telegraph.
Wooten, who was convicted of two felonies in the 1980s, was also accused of marijuana possession in a drug free zone in 2008, the paper noted. Drug free zones, or perimeters around schools, playgrounds, churches and other selected institutions or organizations, mandate significantly stronger penalties for anyone caught with illegal substances on the wrong side of the boundary. They were passed in the 1980s amid a surge in the popularity of "crack" cocaine, which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was later found to have aided the distribution of.
The Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based thinktank, reported in 2006 that drug free zones have done little to enhance public health or safety and have instead disproportionately targeted minorities, according to the Associated Press.
"We just hope [Texas Department of Criminal Justice] can free up room for this menace to society; maybe the state can release a child molester or serial arsonist to find a cell for Wooten," Houston Press scoffed in a Friday blog post.
"The fact is that most of you who are reading this article will probably believe that sentencing a person to prison for 35 years for the possession of a non-toxic, non-addicting, all natural substance that has proven anti-cancer capabilities is not really protecting society from anything dangerous," opined a post on the Texas NORML forum. "He might have been stupid choosing his location to medicate, after all, it was Tyler, 'Texas', but nobody should spend a day in a steel cage for medicating, much less their entire life or 35 years."
The U.S. State Department claimed earlier in March that Mexican marijuana cultivation escalated some 35 percent in 2009, while the Mexican military's interdiction efforts decreased in the face of more dangerous substances like methamphetamine. Houston and the surrounding areas are well-known drug trafficking zones for the Mexican marijuana cartels and a significant portion of marijuana consumed in the state can be traced south of the border.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: veggie]
#12168499 - 03/09/10 12:30 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: iFennario]
#12168527 - 03/09/10 12:38 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Amongst many other things, they're taking our LIVES away.
Where does the ignorance end and the sense/compassion begin?
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: veggie]
#12168581 - 03/09/10 01:04 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've met some pretty cool Texans, but their judiciary is the WORST! 
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: Dragonaut]
#12168582 - 03/09/10 01:05 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Im going to call these guys tommarow and start throwing some shit. This is just insane. Or what should we not get involved? Ill just ask what kind of crime was this man commiting, really???
You guys are the damn criminals for enslaving people for life for being free. LoL
no that just sounds crazy too. The truth is were all human and this shit aint going down like it is for the long run imo.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: JohnP]
#12168584 - 03/09/10 01:08 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wonder if they would still be doing this To eachother after 100,000 phone calls threatening that we will all come to stand together as people. The coalition of people for eachother.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: JohnP]
#12168602 - 03/09/10 01:18 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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this kind of shit really dissapoints me
almost a guruantee the guy wouldn't even have been sentenced to jail time for soething like that in Canada
jesus how long will it take before this people realize
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: sh4d0ws]
#12168612 - 03/09/10 01:27 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Texas: the intellectual garbage dump of America.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: ToiletDuk]
#12168975 - 03/09/10 05:38 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
ToiletDuk said:
I've met some pretty cool Texans, but their judiciary is the WORST!
bible-belt-bullshit
This man will be raped and caged like an animal because of what he put into his body.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: monkeywrench]
#12169366 - 03/09/10 08:01 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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lame.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: monkeywrench]
#12169415 - 03/09/10 08:17 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
5-HT2A said:
Texas: the intellectual garbage dump of America.
Quote:
monkeywrench said:
Quote:
ToiletDuk said:
I've met some pretty cool Texans, but their judiciary is the WORST!
bible-belt-bullshit
This man will be raped and caged like an animal because of what he put into his body.
Typical regionalist elitism.
"Texas  " and you go about your business. If it were New York, or Washington State, or Michigan, you wouldn't say "Michigan is the intellectual garbage dump of America" and go about your daily business, you'd probably write congressmen and join NORML. Why is it okay it just make light of shit like this, because it happened in Texas (or Kansas)?
Shit like this happens all over the country, but when it happens in Texas it's "Bible Belt Bullshit" even though religion has nothing to do with it.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: Mchaggis]
#12169536 - 03/09/10 08:48 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thats a stiff sentence. In all truth hell get out earlier, after serving a few years he could probably petition for a lesser sentence. Still sucks for him though. I mean, id seriously doubt he was selling at a day care center though =P lol.
But lets be honest here, he wasnt just using lol. You dont have a QP and scales on you for personal use. Just saying. That and he broke the same law twice, youd think after the first time hed get a bit smarter
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: Kysmoker]
#12170388 - 03/09/10 11:22 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: ToiletDuk]
#12171002 - 03/09/10 12:56 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
ToiletDuk said:
I've met some pretty cool Texans, but their judiciary is the WORST!
QFT
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: 5-HT2A]
#12171030 - 03/09/10 01:00 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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5-HT2A said:
Texas: the intellectual garbage dump of America.
last I checked, a couple of the best schools around are in texas. world-class hospital system, major exporter of electronics/computer components, etc.
don't mess.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: piracetam]
#12171212 - 03/09/10 01:22 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
piracetam said:
Quote:
5-HT2A said:
Texas: the intellectual garbage dump of America.
last I checked, a couple of the best schools around are in texas. world-class hospital system, major exporter of electronics/computer components, etc.
don't mess.
With Tejas, Muthafuckas.
But seriously, our nice attitude towards concealed carry is not even cool enough to outweigh a tenth of the retarded
attitude towards drug users in the judiciary here.
It's bullshit. When you start putting up tent prisons around the country its time to let up on the laws a little.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: piracetam]
#12171249 - 03/09/10 01:27 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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everyone likes to hate on texas because we are one of the most badass states.
a lot of people died to gain its independence from mexico, on both sides.
but mostly mexicans.
when you go out of country, most people recognize your state and think youre either automatically badass or a fascist.
im from literally the worst county in texas for what we would consider judiciary offenses.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: wowitch17]
#12171275 - 03/09/10 01:29 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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what, Travis?
i'm sure those weirdo hicks in East Texas have a more messed up 'justice system'
and there's a sign that says 'church' on every other block.
wtf is up with that
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: wowitch17]
#12171285 - 03/09/10 01:31 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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wowitch17 said:
everyone likes to hate on texas because we are one of the most badass states.
a lot of people died to gain its independence from mexico, on both sides.
but mostly mexicans.
when you go out of country, most people recognize your state and think youre either automatically badass or a fascist.
im from literally the worst county in texas for what we would consider judiciary offenses.
Yeah, mostly Mexicans. I think it's because there's so many badass drugs around Austin.
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Re: Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession [Re: chobumms]
#12171290 - 03/09/10 01:32 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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L is always around in austin 
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