IPFS News Link • Drug War
Drug War "Justice" in Utah
• by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)Utah resident Virginia Ward cried on November 18 as
she was sentenced to 90 days in jail – and three years of probation -- for drug
trafficking. This meant that she would join the large and ever-growing
population of prisoners she helped to create as a former Justice Court Judge.
.... Ward confronted the possibility of two 15-year prison sentences for her role in
a multistate smuggling operation. Before the case went before a judge, the
prosecutor had dropped one of the charges in exchange for a guilty plea. Thus began an unusual auction in which the prosecutor, the
parole department, and the trial judge sought to bid down the price their former
colleague would pay for breaking laws she had enforced while feeding her own
Oxycodone addiction. ...
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