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Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX]
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Path to Freedom for Tyrone Brown
December 22, 2006 - ABC News

A recent "20/20" story about a Texas man who has been imprisoned for the past 16 years because he violated his parole by using marijuana outraged an overwhelming number of viewers, who have sent daily e-mails of support to Tyrone Brown. And now, finally, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for Brown.

Keith Dean, the Dallas judge who issued the unusually harsh sentence, has written a formal letter to the Texas parole board asking them to free Brown.

Dean, who was voted out of office just days after "20/20" ran the story, wrote that he supported the district attorney's recommendation of release and agreed that "Mr. Brown has been rehabilitated and no longer poses a risk to others or himself."

The parole board is expected to determine Brown's eligibility for release this week and pass its recommendation on to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Perry is the only one who can order Brown's freedom.

Tyrone Brown's Story

In November, "20/20" interviewed Brown in prison and contrasted his story with that of a more well-connected and privileged man whom Dean also sentenced.

Brown, who pleaded guilty to his first and only offense at age 17, was given probation after a $2 armed robbery in which the victim wasn't harmed and had his wallet returned. But months later, Brown violated his probation by testing positive for marijuana. In most cases of marijuana violations, Texas judges — and Dean — often recommend counseling and allow the defendant to remain on probation with a stiff warning.

In this case, however, without explanation, Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Another man, convicted of murder for shooting a male prostitute in his backyard, was also given probation. But after numerous violations with a much more serious drug — cocaine — that man was never jailed. He was from a wealthy family and had political connections and a private attorney.

The response from the story led to a Web site and protests — pressure that seems to have worked. Brown may soon be on the road to freedom, 16 years after his probation violation.

VIDEO: Injustice Corrected
Related Story: Pot Smoking Got Him Life

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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Life in prison?!?!? WTF is this for real??


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HELP!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: EquilibriuM]
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Thats America


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J-to tha R-O-C Knomsayn!

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: crakkattak]
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America, land of the free.

Where the jailers are free to imprison you for life whenever they deem fit.


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Know your substance.
Know your source.

The most distorted perspective possible is the perspective that yours is not distorted.

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: ExplosiveMango]
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"Mr. Brown has been rehabilitated and no longer poses a risk to others or himself."

Often times I find short, simple vulgarity unnecessary and unintelligent. However, I can't think of a more proper response than,

"Go

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fuck


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yourself."


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You're not like the others. You like the same things I do. Wax paper, boiled football leather... dog breath. We're not hitch-hiking anymore, we're riding!

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: Koala Koolio]
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This really made my stomach sick.

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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I hate this country in so many ways.


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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: Ravus]
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I second that. To think that a judge could even think of doing this to someone in the first place. It's that judge who should be in prison, if 20/20 hadn't exposed him for the jerk he is, he (the judge) probably wouldn't have ever done anything.


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Edited by Riboflavin (12/22/06 09:39 PM)

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: Riboflavin]
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damn this has to be the most ludacris thing im ever heard about... insane indeed.... im scared now.. hahah *Lights blunt*


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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: KangKoopa]
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That judge should have to serve 16 years. Maybe he'll get lucky and get out of prison and get a settlement for unusual cruel and harsh punsihment. Although no amount of money is worth 16 years of your life. It seems as a lot of judges discriminate against african americans. I think is this a perfect example, you know if he was white he wouldn't have been gaven this sentence. Keep in mind this coming from a white person who has been robbed at gunpoint by two african americans. I am not ussually one to cry discrimination, but damn you know it's evident here.


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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: Montanahunter420]
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now, is pot really REALLY worth life in prison? *puts blunt down* j/k


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I went to st thomas and camped out ontop of the island... Despite my entire family being poor all my life, the land is priceless.
I was chased by haitians in the main city charlotte amalie when my girlfriend and I got some cocaine for free in a bar and mixed it with alcohol, to form a stronger drug. With such confidence at 2am, we walked the 4-5 or so miles down to the beach where the african slaves lie like lions waiting on tourist prey.

The war isen't on drugs... the war is on the causes that influence people to abuse drugs. drug-abuse is a by-product of the system and much like radioactive waste occurs from utilizing nuclear power, drug addicts with drug-problems will need to be properly disposed of, like the decaying radioactive waste produced from nuclear energy. -i2ancid

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: I2ancid]
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btw the man prob had negative karma leading to his sentence, who are we to judge, or that texas man, I dunno.  :whack:


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I went to st thomas and camped out ontop of the island... Despite my entire family being poor all my life, the land is priceless.
I was chased by haitians in the main city charlotte amalie when my girlfriend and I got some cocaine for free in a bar and mixed it with alcohol, to form a stronger drug. With such confidence at 2am, we walked the 4-5 or so miles down to the beach where the african slaves lie like lions waiting on tourist prey.

The war isen't on drugs... the war is on the causes that influence people to abuse drugs. drug-abuse is a by-product of the system and much like radioactive waste occurs from utilizing nuclear power, drug addicts with drug-problems will need to be properly disposed of, like the decaying radioactive waste produced from nuclear energy. -i2ancid

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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Thats fuckn unbelievable.
Ive gotten 2 dirty UAs now while on parole for coke once and weed the other time...
Spent one day in jail for the coke_
This guy gets 16 years :shocked:

Yah, I guess thats Texas for ya.


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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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Board requests freedom for man who got life for probation violation
January 20, 2007 - dallasnews.com

The Texas parole board asked Gov. Rick Perry on Friday to free a Dallas man who was sentenced to life in prison after testing positive for marijuana once while he was a teenager on probation.

Board members voted 5-2 in favor of Tyrone Brown, whose case attracted national attention after The Dallas Morning News profiled it in a report last spring on judicial disparities in Dallas County. The members gave no reason for their votes and did not respond to messages Friday afternoon.

Mr. Perry gave no indication of his plans. "The governor will review the board's recommendation thoroughly once our office receives it and will make a decision in due time," said spokesman Ted Royer.

Mr. Brown's victim, Bill Hathaway, who was robbed at gunpoint of $2 but wasn't hurt, cheered the board's decision.

"I hope the governor realizes the grave injustice that was done by this judge," Mr. Hathaway said. "I'd love to see this injustice righted. ... Tell the governor to give me a call."

Keith Dean, the state district judge who sent the 17-year-old Mr. Brown to prison in 1990, did not respond to interview requests Friday. He lost a re-election bid in November and is working as a criminal defense lawyer in Dallas.

Mr. Dean has previously refused to explain the life sentence, which deviated dramatically from his policies on probation violations.

Nor has he explained his tolerance for the more serious violations committed by the other probationer The News profiled – a wealthy, politically connected murderer. This man repeatedly tested positive for cocaine and was arrested for cocaine possession while driving a congressman's car, yet the judge let him quit taking drug tests and reporting to a probation officer.

Neither the murderer nor Mr. Brown had a prior criminal record.

Friday's commutation recommendation is the 10th that Mr. Perry has received from the parole board. He has approved three, once over the objections of a crime victim.

Two approvals benefited prisoners who, like Mr. Brown, were convicted of robbery. One of those men recently returned to prison, on a drug conviction. The other two freed men, The News found, have stayed out of trouble.

State Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who chairs the Senate criminal justice committee, called Mr. Brown "a poster child" for Texas' failure to spend wisely on criminal justice.

"The guy is a classic case of the people in prison who a reasonable person would believe are not a danger," said the senator, himself a robbery victim.

Some are incarcerated because of excessive sentences, he said, and some because the state failed to provide drug and alcohol therapy. Texas prisons are overflowing despite a massive enlargement a decade ago, and corrections officials are now asking legislators to spend millions on further expansion.

Mr. Whitmire and others – including state Rep. Jerry Madden, a Plano Republican – want to spend more on rehabilitation, instead. "Correctional issues transcend party lines," Mr. Madden said.

The Brown case has generated much discussion among state leaders, according to Mr. Whitmire, who said he recently asked parole board chairwoman Rissie Owens, "How many more do you all have like that?"

Her reply, he said, was: "I hope none."

Ms. Owens voted with the majority to free Mr. Brown. Also voting yes were Jose Aliseda, Charles Aycock, Conrith Davis and Juanita Gonzalez. Linda Garcia and Jackie DeNoyelles voted no.

The board endorsed freeing Mr. Brown based primarily on the recommendations of former Judge Dean and former Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill, who also left office last month. State law says the board cannot act without recommendations from at least two of the three trial officials.

A standoff between Mr. Dean and Mr. Hill kept the Brown case from reaching the governor months earlier.

Shortly after The News' first story on Mr. Brown ran in April, the judge contacted Mr. Hill and said "he wanted Brown to receive a time cut, but that he did not want to be the one to initiate it," according to a letter Mr. Hill sent the parole board.

"I told Dean that I would join with him in requesting a time cut, but that he should be the one to initiate it because he was responsible for the sentence," the letter continued.

Mr. Hill ultimately made the first move, in late November, shortly after ABC-TV's 20/20 news show profiled the two cases identified by The News. The TV report prompted the formation of a Web-based campaign (www. savemrbrown.com) to free Mr. Brown.

Dallas NAACP leader Bob Lydia worked on Mr. Brown's commutation appeal with lawyer Frederick "Rick" Russell, in whose office Mr. Dean now works.

The civil rights group now plans "to bombard the governor's office and make sure he gets the message that we need action on this as quickly and expeditiously as possible," Mr. Lydia said.

He hopes to enlist more support for Mr. Brown from the Dallas area, he said. So far, most backing has come from outside Texas.

Charlie Douglas, a Florida lawyer who helped organize the Web campaign, said he was surprised that two parole board members voted no. "Nevertheless," he added, "I remain hopeful that the governor will sign the necessary paperwork so that Tyrone can reunite with his family and justice can prevail after 16 long years."

Mr. Brown's mother also expressed confidence in a happy ending.

"It's going to happen," Nora Brown said. "We've just got to have patience."

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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God dammit, what the hell is going on with correctional systems. They are supposed to be correctional. It seems that the second a citizen gets a "jail-time worthy" offense their life is over, can't vote, can't get a job - it's total bullshit. Since when did people not deserve a second chance, especially when you commit a crime at 17!!! if anyone hasn't done something stupid as a teenager then please let me know.

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: Flop Johnson]
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he's black

he smokes weed

and he's in texas. :rolleyes:

I could hardly believe what I was reading. But thank god he is getting out.

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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March 9, 2007 - kvue.com
Perry pardons man's life sentence for pot

Gov. Rick Perry decided Friday to free Tyrone Brown, a Dallas man sentenced to life in prison 17 years ago after smoking marijuana while on probation.

But Perry stopped short of simply terminating the sentence, as recommended by Dallas County officials and the Texas parole board.

Instead, he granted a conditional pardon after determining that Brown “would require supervision after he was released from prison to assist in his reintegration,” Perry spokesman Ted Royer said.

Brown, whose case has attracted national attention since The Dallas Morning News publicized it last year, will have to live with his mother, report to a parole officer, find a job and work with a therapist.

“Any violation of these conditions will cause the conditional pardon to be revoked,” Royer said. “The Board of Pardons and Paroles must submit annual reports to the governor concerning Brown’s supervision, which will assist in determining the length of supervision.”

Brown was 17 when he went on probation for taking part in an armed robbery in which no one was hurt. Judge Keith Dean re-sentenced him to life after one positive drug test.

In prison, he failed to finish his high school education, fought with guards and joined a gang before cleaning up his act in recent years.

Brown’s case stood in sharp contrast to that of a well-connected murderer whom Judge Dean put on probation, The News reported. The killer, John Alexander Wood, repeatedly tested positive for cocaine and committed other violations, yet avoided prison. He even got permission to quit reporting to a probation officer and quit taking drug tests.

Neither man had a prior criminal history. The judge has never explained his actions.

The story outraged readers, inspired coverage on ABC-TV’s 20/20 news program and led to formation of a Web-based campaign to free Brown.

Several hundred people have called or written the governor urging that he commute the sentence. The only known opposition came from two members of the parole board, who have not explained their positions.

Bill Hathaway, the man that Brown robbed of $2 in 1990, has been among his many supporters.

“I think he’s done his time,” Hathaway said. “I have nothing against him.”

The prisoner’s mother, Nora Brown, said she was being bombarded with calls from well-wishers as news of governor’s decision began trickling out. “He’s coming home!” she said.

The exact date of his release was unclear this afternoon. Brown said it probably will be next week.

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Re: Pot User May Be Freed After Serving 16 Years [TX] [Re: veggie]
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Quote:
But Perry stopped short of simply terminating the sentence, as recommended by Dallas County officials and the Texas parole board.

Instead, he granted a conditional pardon after determining that Brown “would require supervision after he was released from prison to assist in his reintegration,” Perry spokesman Ted Royer said.



I guess they just can't ever quit being assholes, not even for a second.


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Tyrone Brown freed from prison [TX] [Re: veggie]
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March 15, 2007 - kvue.com
Tyrone Brown freed from prison

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Tyrone Brown walked out of prison Thursday morning, 17 years after a single positive marijuana test while on probation led a Dallas judge to hit him with a life sentence.

Brown, who won a conditional pardon last week from Gov. Rick Perry, broke into a wide smile and then cried as he saw the crowd that awaited him: half a church busload of relatives, plus journalists from as far away as New York.

“I didn't believe this day was going to come,” he said.

His mother, Nora Brown, rushed across the street to embrace her son and nearly collapsed, speechless. She then led the crowd in waving goodbye to the high red brick walls and razor wire of the Huntsville unit, where Brown had been processed out of the prison system.

She screamed "new life" as she later led the group in prayer.

Brown was 17, poor and had no criminal record when Judge Keith Dean initially put him on probation in 1990, for taking part in an armed robbery in which no one was hurt.

The life sentence that followed attracted national attention last year when The Dallas Morning News contrasted it with another from the same judge’s court – one in which a well-connected man got probation for murder and, despite several positive tests for cocaine and other violations, still avoided prison.

ABC-TV’s 20/20 news show later featured the same material, leading to formation of a Web-based campaign to free Brown. Dallas County officials and the Texas parole board recommended that his sentence be terminated. So did the man Brown robbed of $2.

Perry agreed to release Brown, but with conditions. Among other things, Brown must report to a parole officer for an indefinite period and get counseling about his re-entry to society.

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Re: Tyrone Brown freed from prison [TX] [Re: veggie]
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Absolutely disgusting.

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