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veggie

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Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI]
#5491633 - 04/08/06 12:40 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death April 7, 2006 - trb.com
GRAND RAPIDS ? It's the case prosecutors say proved heroin use is a growing problem in the suburbs.
Friday, a jury found drug dealer Eugene Atkins guilty for dealing the heroin that led to a Grandville teenager's death.
Grandville teenager Matthew McKinney lost his life to a heroin overdose in December of 2004. Now 21-year-old Eugene Atkins, the man who sold McKinney the drug, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
McKinney was found dead in a friends car the day after taking the drug, but McKinney's friend, Chris Perrin bought the drug with him, took the drug with him and testified against Atkins in court.
"It is a mandatory life sentence because he has a prior felony drug conviction and he stood trial on all charges," said Ray Beckering, Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Prosecutors say he could have gotten off easier if he would have accepted one of the two plea bargains they offered him, but Atkins turned them down. "You cannot ignore the drug distributors who are gonna prey on juveniles and prey on addicts and feed those addictions to put money in their own pockets," said Beckering.
Atkins' family members believe he should be punished in some way but not with a life sentence and not for selling drugs. "I felt a lot of the stuff was lies on the part of the prosecutors and witness, some I'm really surprise, really disappointed," said Glenda Williams, the defendant's aunt.
Atkins can not file a formal appeal until he is officially sentenced on July 11th.
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Banez
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: veggie]
#5491640 - 04/08/06 12:44 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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thats really unfornuate.. i dont know how i feel about that.. i mean true he broke the law for selling drugs but its not his fault the kid died from it... just like if you sell a gun, your not responsible if he kills someone with it..
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calavera
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: Banez]
#5491646 - 04/08/06 12:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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its like if you buy a proche and drive like crazy and get killed by a tree, the car dealer is to blame! anyway fuck heroin and all heroin dealers.
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Banez
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: calavera]
#5491673 - 04/08/06 12:58 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i was going to use that example.. but its not illegal to sell cars.. its illegal to sell heroin.. thats why i used the gun example
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RemainRandom50
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: Banez]
#5492624 - 04/08/06 11:49 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
OHSBrave06 said: thats really unfornuate.. i dont know how i feel about that.. i mean true he broke the law for selling drugs but its not his fault the kid died from it... just like if you sell a gun, your not responsible if he kills someone with it..
i agree completely.
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: RemainRandom50]
#5492773 - 04/08/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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a shroomerite who used to post here is in jail for charges similar to this. Its becoming the new trend in drug sentencing when someone OD's.
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Re: Drug Dealer Found Guilty In Heroin Death [MI] [Re: veggie]
#5492783 - 04/08/06 12:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow, what bullshit.Let's start putting car dealers away everytime one of the cars they sell kills somebody.
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