Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

"How $31 of pot gave mom a 10-year-prison sentence"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this very interesting local sentencing story out of Oklahoma. Here are the details: On Dec. 31, 2009, [25-year-old Patricia Marilyn] Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, 50, sold a ?dime bag? of marijuana to a police informant at Starr's home in Kingfisher, court records state.  Starr handled the transaction and asked her 9-year-old grandson ? Spottedcrow's son ? for some dollar bills to make change for the $11 sale.  Two weeks later, the same informant returned and bought $20 of marijuana from Spottedcrow. The two women were arrested for drug distribution and because Spottedcrow's children were in the home, an additional charge of possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor was added...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).