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Friday, April 15, 2016

Supreme court considers taking case of man given life in prison for growing pot | Society | The Guardian

Brooker has been subjected to strict sentencing mandatory minimum laws in Alabama because the cannabis offense involves a certain weight of the drug and comes on top of convictions for armed robbery more than 30 years ago.

The US supreme court is poised on Friday to decide whether to take on the case of a 76-year-old disabled army veteran handed a sentence of life in prison without parole for growing marijuana in his back yard to alleviate his own health problems.



If the court does not review the case, Lee Carroll Brooker is destined to die behind bars even though judges in his native Alabama have declared this was not an appropriate punishment.



Supreme court considers taking case of man given life in prison for growing pot | Society | The Guardian

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