To: The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, and Governor Ron DeSantis
Reform Non-Violent Minimum Mandatory trafficking laws in Florida
Statutes imposing mandatory minimum sentences result in arbitrary and severe punishments that undermine the public’s faith in America’s criminal justice system. Consider the effect of those provisions in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Drug offenses, which make up a significant proportion of mandatory minimums, can give rise to arbitrary, severe punishments.[38] The difference between a drug quantity that triggers a mandatory minimum and one that does not will often produce a “cliff effect.”[39] While someone with 0.9 gram of LSD might not spend much time incarcerated, another fraction of a gram will result in five years behind bars.
Why is this important?
The police and the prosecutors have to much power in my brothers case the police wanted my brother to give up 3 grow houses or no deal. Let the police do their jobs like in the old days with investigations rather than taking the easy way out and making deals with snitches who have their own agenda. The cop who arrested my brother coerced him into signing a consent form or he said he would arrest his wife and take away his kids by DCF and they even jumped his fence without a warrant. Police are citizens just like us supposedly to "protect and serve" in my brothers case they acted like the mafia only they had badges and guns. We have to reign in this abuse of power.
Now my brother the father of 3 his oldest a Police Officer, middle child in a Jesuit private school and the youngest is still in elementary have all been deprived of being with their father for the next 3 years and has never had a violent offense in his life.
Now my brother the father of 3 his oldest a Police Officer, middle child in a Jesuit private school and the youngest is still in elementary have all been deprived of being with their father for the next 3 years and has never had a violent offense in his life.