25 year-old Patricia Spottedcrow’s story typifies the excessive and unnecessary drug charges leveled against first time offenders. She’ll be spending the next 12 years behind bars for selling $31 worth of marijuana ($31? An additional buck for the baggie?). This video gives a face to an all too common story.
Oklahoma, Patricia Spottedcrow and Excessive Sentencing for First Time Offenders
May 20, 2011 By 23 Comments
$14K Annually for 12 years = $168,000 for $30 worth of Marijuana, what a waste of $ and a waste of time for her… hopefully she gets a masters degree while she’s in there… cause OK’s citizens are payin’ for it…
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WTF WTF WTF that judge shouldnt have been able to make that call she was planning retirement prolly just found out she had cancer and was acting not on the arm of justice,but instead she decides to not use true justice and sentancing to fit the crime,all for a bag of weed….someone should wipe that judges face in piss for what she has done….31 bucks of bud =12 years ….now does that make sense when a pedofile can touch a child and get less than 5 ,and maybe a fine……wtf wtf wtf
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This sentence placed onto Patricia Spottedcrow is sheer wrongness and a waste of Oklahoma’s financial resources. As a member of the Cherokee tribe and an occasional visitor to your fair state, I oppose this action and ask for her- and yourselves- for a clearer understanding of the facts. For cryin’ out loud, it’s not Meth.
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I literally got a tear in my eye when i read this. 12 years!? So sad that 12 years ofv this womans life is ruined! Weve heard it all before. But how dare the government let out a child molester earlier. Someone who preys on those who cant defend themselves. Or a rapist? Someone who preys on the givers of life?! $31 worth of plant? Is WORTH 12 FU**ING YEARS!? Thats so depressing. So sad. Now this woman is being molested and raped by the system sworn to protect her. Im so so sorry for her…and us.
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This is the nonsense we have to stop…what a waste of money….don;t the police have anything better to do? Like deal with the gangs there??? There should be no jail time for an herb…..
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The people all of them need to wake the F
888K UP// ICAN NOT BELIVE THIS// THIS IS SO NOT RIGHT//HOW CAN THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THAT THIS IS GOING ON IN THERE STATE PLEASE HELP // SPOTTEDCROW// HOW// YOU PEOPLE ARE OH SO FU***ED UP IN THE HEAD//
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That judge got karma for her.. Now shes dealing cancer, Bet that 30$ bag of weed would give her more relief then 1000$ of pharma drugs
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I wonder how that judge would feel if she lived in CO and told her to take marijuana for her chemo. Fuckin bitch should have her legs broke and left to rot in a hospital with no pain meds. That judge is fucking fat cunt whore who gargles elephant semen in her mouth. Seriously someone should just go slip bleach into one of her iv’s at the hospital.
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This is another example of this backward ignorant hillbilly state we call Oklahoma. I am ashamed to say I was born and raised there but thankfully got out as quick as I could . Oklahoma has one of the poorest education systems per capita in the country, which is evidenced by an ignorant judge who would render a verdict against a 25 yr old young adult. Good God if this were California she would have been sent home with a fine. I am appalled. We should be advocates for young adults especially the native American impoverished . This is a travesty!
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I am so disgusted with the government of Oklahoma. We just passed a bill last month that makes processing hash (with less than 8 cases of hash processing ever in Oklahoma) a minimum 2 year Prison term to Life, and a $50,000 fine, which doubles for second offense. Then no more than 2 days after that bill, we pass a bill to keep non violent offenders, like Patricia, out of prison. WTF is wrong with this government in Oklahoma? I live in Oklahoma and have read so many articles from the Oklahoma Gazette and many other newspapers based in Oklahoma bashing the OK Government, which goes to show that the Government of Oklahoma DOES NOT have the same view of the people. Oklahoma looks like the dumb ass of the country because of our government here, when in reality, the CITIZENS of Oklahoma do not have the same view as the government here.
Don’t look at the citizens here as stupid people, look at the government here as the dumbasses, it’s proven when the state newspapers are printing stories that are bashing the Government of Oklahoma. I can’t stand the government of this state, they are total idiots and need to be taken out of office. Fallin is the downfall of this state.
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Now why arent the feds beating down someones door for this ridiculousness? 12 years – thats no longer a state run gig is it?
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oklahoma will now give you a life sentence for manufacturing hash. a natural extract which can be done as easily a cold water extraction method. i could understand idiots using butane extraction which cud blow just as easily as a tweeker lab. it is time for the government to wake up. 0 deaths per year. hundred percent all natural. in genesis it even states all that comes from seed i give to you. plants and animals. time to stop the reefer madness days
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I feel so sad for patricia and her family,hey you said that judge has cancer well just maybe she will have to turn to cannabis to help her out, don’t give it to her. let her suffer the way patricia has to for the next 12 years, what a load of crap going to jail for a remarkable plant. Most likely if the judge would have been smoking it she wouldn’t have gotten cancer. Way to harsh hope it can be overturned.
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poor woman, well as a citizen this is what im going to do, i will never go to the sh*tty state of oklahoma, they will never get any of my tourism business. but then again who would want to go to a backward, redneck, biggotted state like that anyways. You have nothing to offer anyone and now you have even less. I hope people in oklahoma will have the courage to stand up for what is right
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12 years for a quarter ounce or less, that is just crazy. Apparently these people have no real crime in their area and are looking for something to do. To top things off, Spottedcrow sounds ethnic to me, people in OK never did like the American Indians. This sounds tanted as well as nuts…. Wake up America!!!!
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I do not do street drugs and i do not smoke Cannabis! Judge Pritchett was wrong to give that many years to Spottedcrow. Yes Spottedcrow was wrong but it was just $30 give her Probation and a fine DO NOT take away 12 years of her life that is just dumb. I hope that Judge has a lot of pain for what she did all so some one needs to look at her passed to see if she has been unfair be for.
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And to think, a man in my state got 7 years, for hitting his 9 year old son in the head with a ball bat. He now has a steel plate. Have you heard of anything so freakin stupid. Our justice system is seriously messed up!!!!
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This is such an abuse of judicial power. That judge is getting her Karma back, if she is undergoing the brutal treatment of chemotherapy for her cancer. She is among the ignorant, who do not realize the benefits of cannabis, and for this she will SUFFER! This girl needs to get back to the task of raising her small children, and her lawyer needs to get her out of this web we call “justice.” What a RAW DEAL this poor girl got! Makes me sick!!!
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So I suppose if you were to jaywalk in Oklahoma, you’d get 20 to life? Or are these bullshit sentences only saved for Native Americans? How it is that these prosecutors and judges can even sleep at night? How can they live their lives in freedom, and still be able to enjoy their daily routines while condemning a 25 yr old mother to 12 yrs in prison without even batting an eye?
Have these people ever heard of the “Golden Rule”? It’s ALWAYS the people without the resources to fight back that get these unfathomable sentences!!! These days it’s the size of your bank account that determines whether you will receive justice or not…It’s the War On SOME Drugs, & only for SOME People! It’s time for another Revolution, people—these atrocities cannot continue!!!
…Our Forefathers are rolling over in their graves!
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The TSA can molest children at the airport and they are never prosecuted ! 12 years for 30 bucks worth of weed is not even real ! The judge in this case should have their head examined because no resonable person would ever do such a thing to another human being if there wasn’t some type of severe mental illness involved in this crazy decision !
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I feel that it is utterly rediculous that our “justice” system put this poor woman in prison for this and for this long! She wasn’t committing any violent offense and she is now with violent criminals as well as others who are in prison for something non-violent like herself. She was trying to provide for her family. She wasn’t collecting money from the government and she was an upstanding citizen trying to make it for her KIDS! Um… the jury just let Casey Anthony go… we all have our own opinions on that but neglect was something that shouldn’t have been ruled out. I’m not saying that I think legalizing marjiuana is gonna solve ALL of our problems, but surely, it will solve plenty of them (taxes, free up jails for more serious crimes, allow for more jobs hence boost our economy). And maybe, just maybe I wouldn’t have to be unemployed myself. Not because I’m a smoker at this time, but because I would be able to perspectively have a farm and be able to assist others in this mission.
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The Spottedcrow case will not stop me from moving to Oklahoma but I see work needs to be done to educate people there. I am African American, a Creek Freedman, a former Marijuana research subject and N.O.R.M.L. volunteer who did cable access tv shows for them in San Francisco. I am also a Buddhist who chants Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. I was studying to be a Paralegal here in omaha Nebraska, and because my family’s in Oklahoma I will move there and continue my studies. I will chant for her to be released and returned to her children soon and I’ll keep up with this case.
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I am a fiscal conservative living in Colorado–a bordering state of Oklahoma–where medical marijuana patients–caregiver–and medical marijuana centers–can grow–and patients can buy medical marijuana and hash legally–without fear of ending up in prison over it. We have had no violence associated with our laws and our state treasury is filling up with much needed millions of new tax revenue. Plus it has created lots of private sector jobs.
I can guarantee you it costs the taxpayers of Oklahoma much more than 14K per year to house an inmate. In my state it’s about 35-40K per year. They also get all medical costs paid for by the taxpayers of that state–and other benefits.. I believe this woman has kids–that you must be paying the support of.
I have to ask this–when all state budgets are in a crisis. Why is Oklahoma locking up non-violent offenders? If you’re doing this to non-violent offenders–where do you put your rapists–child predators–murderer’s–violent gang members, etc.
I think Oklahoma is living in the dark ages–and maybe you should think about electing more rational FISCALLY conservative people with COMMON SENSE to represent you.
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