Life Sentence for 6.5 gram Crack... Is this stupid and a waste of resources or what?
Murders, Armed Robbers and Rapist get less time than that...
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Female inmate wants sentence reduced
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Sheila Devereux: Because this was her third conviction for drug possession, she received a life sentence under Oklahoma's "three-strikes law."
Published: 1/9/2011 2:31 AM
A woman asking to have her life sentence modified because her case involves indicted police officers has hit a road block in her effort to be freed, a Tulsa World investigation shows.
Sheila Devereux, 47, has asked Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris to review her case, which involved a 2005 conviction for drug trafficking.
In October, the World interviewed Devereux in Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, reporting on her arrest and the involvement of Officer Nick DeBruin and retired officer Harold R. Wells in her case.
Indicted July 20 in federal court, DeBruin and Wells are charged with theft of U.S. funds, possession of drugs and civil rights violations in which the officers allegedly planted small amounts of methamphetamine and crack cocaine on people, the indictment states. The officers are not accused of wrongdoing in the Devereux case.
While Devereux's codefendant, Earnest Allen Butler, 70, was the target of the arrest, Devereux allegedly admitted bringing drug clients to Butler's home for drug transactions, police records show.
Butler, who has a previous drug felony, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking March 15, 2005, and received a 13-year prison term. He was paroled in October 2009, Department of Correction records show.
Devereux refused a plea agreement and was convicted on one count of drug trafficking Oct. 24, 2005, court records show.
A jury sentenced Devereux to life without parole under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substance Act,
according to her recently denied appeal. With two previous convictions for drug possession, Devereux qualified for a life sentence under the three-strikes law in Oklahoma, records show. District Judge Tom Thornbrugh presided over the case.
In her appeal to Harris' office, Devereux is willing to accept the same or lesser sentence as Butler.
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In state court, 5 grams or more of cocaine base (crack) qualifies a person for a drug trafficking charge. Police found 6.28 grams of cocaine base hidden in the kitchen ceiling and in a pipe in the bedroom of Butler's house, records show.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20110109_11_A12_ULNSbL960609
Murders, Armed Robbers and Rapist get less time than that...
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Female inmate wants sentence reduced
http://www.tulsaworld.com/articleimages/2011/20110109_A12_A12devereux0109.jpg
Sheila Devereux: Because this was her third conviction for drug possession, she received a life sentence under Oklahoma's "three-strikes law."
Published: 1/9/2011 2:31 AM
A woman asking to have her life sentence modified because her case involves indicted police officers has hit a road block in her effort to be freed, a Tulsa World investigation shows.
Sheila Devereux, 47, has asked Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris to review her case, which involved a 2005 conviction for drug trafficking.
In October, the World interviewed Devereux in Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, reporting on her arrest and the involvement of Officer Nick DeBruin and retired officer Harold R. Wells in her case.
Indicted July 20 in federal court, DeBruin and Wells are charged with theft of U.S. funds, possession of drugs and civil rights violations in which the officers allegedly planted small amounts of methamphetamine and crack cocaine on people, the indictment states. The officers are not accused of wrongdoing in the Devereux case.
While Devereux's codefendant, Earnest Allen Butler, 70, was the target of the arrest, Devereux allegedly admitted bringing drug clients to Butler's home for drug transactions, police records show.
Butler, who has a previous drug felony, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking March 15, 2005, and received a 13-year prison term. He was paroled in October 2009, Department of Correction records show.
Devereux refused a plea agreement and was convicted on one count of drug trafficking Oct. 24, 2005, court records show.
A jury sentenced Devereux to life without parole under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substance Act,
according to her recently denied appeal. With two previous convictions for drug possession, Devereux qualified for a life sentence under the three-strikes law in Oklahoma, records show. District Judge Tom Thornbrugh presided over the case.
In her appeal to Harris' office, Devereux is willing to accept the same or lesser sentence as Butler.
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In state court, 5 grams or more of cocaine base (crack) qualifies a person for a drug trafficking charge. Police found 6.28 grams of cocaine base hidden in the kitchen ceiling and in a pipe in the bedroom of Butler's house, records show.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20110109_11_A12_ULNSbL960609
