Dale Green earns $10 as entrapped middleman in $20 marijuana sale. Gets life without parole
An undercover agent was driving around, when he saw Green on the side of the road and stopped. He asked Green to take him where he could buy some weed.
Green agreed and eventually found a young man to sell the agent a bag of marijuana worth $20. The agent paid Green $10 for his assistance. The agent’s vehicle was equipped with surveillance equipment, but the audio did not work and the video did not verify the sale of marijuana.
Green was nevertheless convicted of distribution of marijuana and sentenced to mandatory life without parole as a third-strike offender under Louisiana’s multiple offender law. According to Green, when he pleaded guilty to prior offenses, he was never informed that these convictions could be used under the multiple offender law if he committed subsequent offenses.
Green had no lawyer to represent him on appeal, and he unsuccessfully tried to raise the claims that he had been entrapped and that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
Read full story at ACLU Special Report. A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses.
Also The State vs Green.
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