Tag: Weldon Angelos
By Jeralyn, Section Court Decisions
Posted on Mon Dec 04, 2006 at 12:19:52 PM EST
Tags: Weldon Angelos, mandatory minimums (all tags)
Posted on Mon Dec 04, 2006 at 12:19:52 PM EST
Tags: Weldon Angelos, mandatory minimums (all tags)
Even though the trial judge, a conservative, called the 55 year sentence of Weldon Angelos excessive, the Supreme Court let it stand today.
Angelos' crime? Carrying a handgun during three 8 oz. marijuana sales.
The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a mandatory 55-year prison sentence, condemned as excessive by the federal judge who imposed it, for a man convicted of carrying a handgun during three marijuana deals.
It didn't matter than he never brandished or used the gun.
Record producer Weldon Angelos received the minimum sentence under the law - a harsher sentence than a child rapist or a terrorist who detonates a bomb aboard an aircraft would receive, according to his attorneys. The justices, without comment, left the prison term undisturbed.
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