10 year Jail Sentence for First Time Offender?

Would Mitch Daniels be the governor of Indiana if he spent 10 years in jail for his marijuana possession charge?

From Change.org:

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An Oklahoma mom sold $31 of marijuana to an undercover cop. For that offense -- her first arrest -- Patricia Spottedcrow is serving 10 years in prison.

What Patricia did was illegal, but many activists feel that the harsh punishment far outstrips the severity of the offense, especially for a first-time offender convicted of a nonviolent crime.

In just a few days, Oklahoma Judge Robert Davis will decide whether to modify Patricia's sentence. So Garret Overstreet, a Change.org member from Oklahoma, started a petition asking Judge Davis to release Patricia from prison and issue a more humane punishment sentence. Please add your name to the petition now.

Patricia has already spent nine months in prison -- more time than most marijuana first-offenders ever serve. During that time, she's taken parenting classes and even finished her GED. But Patricia has also missed her one-year-old daughter's first words. And unless Judge Davis reduces her sentence next week, Patricia will be on track to stay in prison until her youngest daughter is in middle school.
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