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Yeah, not disagreeing with this at all.
But the thread title is extremely misleading as the guy absolutely had more than 1.5 ounces and committed a felony.
I agree that it shouldn’t even be a crime, let alone a felony. But it is.
This is a better article
His appeal was on the grounds that the “life” thing only applies if you have a prior conviction for a violent crime, and at the time he pled guilty to burglary, in 2004, it wasn’t a violent crime under the law. (unless you were separately found violent in the commission, which he wasn’t.) The state changed the law in 2014 to define burglary as a violent crime.
I’m completely indifferent to whether he was carrying 1.5 oz, or 1.05 oz (which I think is what the title was supposed to say, since “jury convicted him of possessing more than 30 grams of marijuana”, which is 1.058 oz) or a pound of weed. Not going to nitpick over what looks like an uninteresting typo. I don’t think the title is misleading at all. He was convicted to life in prison for being found guilty of carrying more than 30 grams of cannabis. That’s pretty freaking nuts.
I’d be willing to call 1.05 vs 1.5 ounces a typo.
Omitting “more than” seems more nefarious. The earlier article’s headline implied “only”, IMO. That said, I’m on record that I don’t think it should be a crime at all… but I recognize that it is.
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Yeah, that’s ridiculous. He might have chosen to not plead guilty if he’d known that it was going to be categorized as a violent crime.
This seems like an ex-post facto issue.
And if he’d known it would line him up for a three-strikes law that i bet was also passed later.
The majority of the appeals court ruled that you can’t be convicted based on a change in law, but you can be punished based on a change in law. A minority strongly objected.
I bet if he’d been white and had a wealthy parent the court would have ruled the other way.
That’s some rather… circuitous logic.
and it circular too!
71 Story building in China started to wobble.
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This is why I don’t take any chances in getting to the hospital on time. I’ve seen too much.
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That’s the best kind of labor (aside from the side of the road part), IMO. The real WTF news is when women have to labor for days and days and the little turd just wants to stay lodged in there.
My labor was very quick, thankfully! Painful, but done and over with, with only a shredded labia to show for it afterwards. Thankfully that (mostly) heals.
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Yeah I’ve wondered about this with my wife. For all our kids thus far she’s basically needed pertosin (sp?) to keep labor at a reasonable pace. Thank goodness for modern medicine because I wonder if 100 years ago it would be some horrific endless labor + stillbirth sort of thing.
In fact thank goodness for modern medicine even 30 years ago because apparently I stopped breathing as I was being born and came out blue and a nurse was shaking as she put an oxygen mask on me and I turned back pink.
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Do you often have cause to go to the hospital?
not personally medically, but soon to have 4 kids so I’m basically a regular now
I think the fifth one is free; check your punch card.
Rightfully so! But I think I’m punching out after this
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Dammit, Dan!!! 
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What, stop at a doubles court, not a basketball team? JFG says hold my beer.
pitocin (injected oxytocin).
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I think you mean pitocin? The hormone used to induce labor?
ETA: I see I was ninja’d by a lot.