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Longest Ever Serving Nonviolent Prisoner

 
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:21 pm    Post subject: Longest Ever Serving Nonviolent Prisoner Reply with quote

http://www.freegeorge.us/about-george-martorano/

24 years is a lot of time for a truck full of weed!
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was not 24 years for a truck full of weed. It was 24 years for being connected to the mafia and not giving up information.
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Should be made to do every last minute of it!
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tzechuk



Joined: 20 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I don't know.

When you think about how rapists get off on a 8-year sentence, life without parole for having a truck full of marijuana IS a very harsh sentence.
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newton kabiddles



Joined: 31 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

maybe it was one of those huge earth-moving vehicles with 20 foot diameter wheels....
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Summer Wine



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think they did it to make a point. You then have to ask whether the person they were making the point to is still alive to undertsand it.

We watch the movie "the count of monte christo" and we know about the "man in the iron mask", so whats the difference?

I say let him go. Its not as if a person who has developed, is as much a danger as a current criminal and it seems he has changed.

Its hypocritical to impound him for the time he has done and let worse people off or is he a mass murderer and they can't get him for it?
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swetepete



Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder, what was the longest sentence handed out to a bootlegger back in the Prohibition days?
Did they get an amnesty after they repealed the alcohol ban?

One other question to you commonwealth types: was booze ever illegal in the antipodes, or in the UK? It wasn't, was it?
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The man received life in prison without possibility of parole for possession of a truck full of weed. Refusing to talk about his family relations, whether they be Mafia or not, wasn't the charge.

Life in prison without parole is a psycho amount of time for a nonviolent offender. Drug war politics at their best. Bleh.
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