Terrance Mosley, passenger in a car with marijuana will die in prison. Driver testifies against him
Mosley was seated in the passenger seat of a parked car when a police officer searched the car, allegedly because it had duplicate license plates. The officer found two bags of marijuana in the car that totaled about two pounds.
Mosley says he was trying to get a ride and did not know the marijuana was in the car, He adamantly insists the marijuana did not belong to him.
The driver of the car received probation in exchange for pleading guilty and did not serve any time.
Mosley was first sentenced to 25 years in prison, but was subsequently sentenced to life without parole as a third-strike offender. To adjudicate Mosley as a habitual offender, the judge used a 12-year-old juvenile possession conviction.
Calling his sentence “pure hell,” Mosley says that it is “cruel and unusual punishment to think you will never be free before you die.” His fiancée continues to support him and visits him regularly.
Read full story at ACLU Special Report. A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses.
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