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Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone?
#10516750 - 06/16/09 12:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Does anyone know or have any first hand experience with the sentences courts in mississippi and tennessee are handing out for cultivating a small amount of cubes?
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: inkmaggot]
#10517020 - 06/16/09 01:22 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Small amount is their call, what the state deems manufacturing and distribution can be what you call a small amount. The worse case would be life if you had a large enough operation and were selling them.
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: Prof. Astro]
#10518104 - 06/16/09 04:10 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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wow, thats just plain crazy. when i was a kid we got busted and had to go to court with a bag of shrooms. it got dismissed because we actually told the truth about what we were doing and out of a few hundred cases we were the only ones to say "i was picking shrooms".
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: inkmaggot]
#10520089 - 06/16/09 10:19 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Its not worth it, basically. TN it depends on how the judge classifies you and your criminal history. They appear to sentence you to a range instead of an actual term. So the minimum for growing one cube is a range of 8-12 years and $2,000-100,000$ cash for example. In TN you'd not be eligible for probation, I can't tell if you can get suspended sentences or no jail at all, but it doesn't look like it. Look yourself if you care.\
For MS I've copied the language of the statute. Not sure if they have sentencing guidelines, but its up to 30 years for one cube.
I don't guarenteee the accuracy and there could be some provisions I'm unaware of, allowing certain things like suspended sentences and whatnot or mandatory minimums imposed by other sections, but these are the actual terms so far as I can see. I can't tell if a term of incarceration is required for any of these offenses, but it seems likely and it does appear that if the court does sentence you to any term of incarceration that you will at least get the minimum listed.
Finally, all these go up if you have other offenses on yoru record and you of course may be charged with other things, like selling, intending to sell, RICO, whatever.
MS: such person may, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) years and shall be fined not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) nor more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00), or both ยง 41-29-139.; It appears that a first offender may get portions of the sentence suspended, but first offender means no criminal record at all it appears.
TN If less than 2 kg: Class B; Minimum $2,000 Fine; Max 100,000 dollars; Not eligible for probation; 8-12 years min incarceration; 20- 30 years max
More than 2kg: Class A; Min $2,000 Max $500,000; Not eligible for probation; 15-25 years min incarceration;40-60 years max
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: johnm214]
#10520829 - 06/17/09 12:30 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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jesus, ive heard about rapists,killers,meth dealers etc getting less time than that. very unfair for something like mushrooms, so are the laws similar to this everywhere or is it just the south or the u.s. in general?
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: inkmaggot]
#10524289 - 06/17/09 03:06 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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That is the most evil ridiculous thing I have ever heard! They are magic mushrooms! Youre life is over for getting caught with a mushroom?
That is wrong and disturbing.
In every State it is like that though pretty much.
Good Ole USA. Doesnt even feel like a free country anymore. Feels like a prison state more and more I grow up and open my eyes.
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: inkmaggot]
#10529895 - 06/18/09 11:57 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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when i was a kid we got busted and had to go to court with a bag of shrooms. it got dismissed because we actually told the truth about what we were doing and out of a few hundred cases we were the only ones to say "i was picking shrooms".
That isn't a good thing to say and if you admit to that type of thing 1000 times, you'll likely end up with 1000 convictions that are not possible to successfully challenge in court.
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jesus, ive heard about rapists,killers,meth dealers etc getting less time than that.
Mushrooms are scarier than rapists, killers, etc.
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Re: Maximum sentence for cubes in MS,TN?anyone? [Re: Ritual]
#10530154 - 06/18/09 12:49 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, no reason to get all up in arms of the USA, it's not the country it's the government and the general beliefs of the citizens, not the lands fault.
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