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Should Michigan be willing to forgive and forget long-ago drug crime?

By Douglas A. Berman

A new drug sentencing story from Michigan sounds like the script of a Lifetime TV movie.  Here are the basics from this piece in The Saginaw News:A southern California family is standing by the wife and mother who lived under a false name and with a colossal secret: Susan M. LeFevre escaped from a Plymouth prison 32 years ago.  But Michigan authorities are painting a different picture from LeFevre's account that her drug involvement was minor and she jumped a barbed wire fence to escape from prison out of fear for her safety. The former Thomas Township resident, arrested at 19 for taking $600 from an undercover officer during a heroin drug sting in 1974, served about one year of a 10- to 20-year sentence for violating drug laws and conspiring to commit that crime when she walked away from the Robert Scott Correctional Facility at 21...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).