Help spread this through the Dark Net please (Life sentence for LSD - petition)

I've never been on the Dark Net, but I was told by some people to touch base here and maybe ask for those of us who ARE able to access it (or I should say - familiar with it) - I've posted this around the regular web, and sorry if I sound like an idiot, but if there are places online that this may gain some traction and exposure that you know of, please feel free to post this wherever - it is a petition for my friend serving a life sentence for LSD conspiracy (he was charged with conspiracy because he wasn't caught with any LSD)

http://www.change.org/petitions/clemency-for-roderick-walker-life-for-lsd


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[12 Points] throwawayfarfaraway9:

This sheds some light on this story...

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showpost.php?s=b0120ca5e48e02b8c1cd42aed8972d7f&p=1120437&postcount=1

Man could face life prison term in LSD scheme By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer 4/16/2005

A New York man is facing the possibility of life in prison after being found guilty Friday in a northeastern Oklahoma LSD-distribution case.

A jury found Roderick "Rudd" Walker of Buffalo, N.Y., guilty of taking part in a conspiracy to distribute LSD and four counts of using a telephone to discuss dealing the drug.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Raley told the jury that evidence during the five-day trial showed that Walker was responsible for the distribution of about 16,500 dosage units of the drug beginning in the summer of 2003.

The jury, which deliberated for more than four hours, found that the conspiracy generated between 10 and 120 grams of the drug. Trial testimony indicated that one hit of LSD consists of 0.0049 grams.

Raley said after the verdict that the amount found by the jury, combined with Walker's previous record, means a life sentence is possible when U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan announces punishment July 14.

Walker, 31, was indicted under seal by a federal grand jury June 10 in Tulsa.

Raley said Walker used to live in the Kansas City, Mo., area.

He said the evidence demonstrated that Walker was seeking another market in Oklahoma for LSD as well as Ecstasy and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Walker's case became public last summer along with charges filed against five other people who were indicted as a result of the same investigation, which also dealt with other drugs.

The other defendants, all from Missouri, have all pleaded guilty since then to various charges.


[5 Points] brendo927:

Dam he must have had a public defender.


[3 Points] None:

So what's the real story? Given that he was convicted, there had to be multiple reliable witnesses who testified against him, assuming they actually didn't find any LSD or relevant materials.


[5 Points] hahahathisguyisajoke:

life sentence? He must have been a prior felon 3 strike dude or osmething.

Im looking up mandatory minimums and he would have had to had 10 grams and 2 prior drug felonies for a mandatory life sentence or 10 grams and resulted in teh death of 1 or more persons?


[2 Points] None:

"May then indicated that he had wired money to Walker four times, to different locations under different names, and that Walker would mail him hits of LSD, in quantities of 500 hits a time, to different addresses. He stated he had also purchased four vials of liquid LSD from Walker, and that he had also traveled four times to a house in Kansas City to pick up LSD directly from Walker."

This guy was dealing literally thousands upon thousands of hits. No wonder he got such a harsh sentence. LSD should be legal and nobody should go to jail for it, but that's how the law is, and if you decide to do that, you should be ready for potential consequences.


[-1 Points] instercis:

Am I reading the description right in that he turned down a plea deal? That's kinda dumb.


[-2 Points] plurblur:

Walker was facing a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1). Raley agreed to file a superseding information reducing the amount of LSD involved in the conspiracy to more than 7 grams but less than ten grams. This would have reduced the mandatory minimum sentence to five years with a maximum sentence of 40 years. Arnett states that he repeatedly advised Walker to accept the plea agreement because, if Walker refused to change his plea, the government would file an enhancement information under 21 U.S.C. § 851 based on Walker's three previous drug trafficking convictions. Dkt. # 137-2, Ex. A, at 2. If the government were to file an enhancement information and Walker were convicted at trial, Walker would face a minimum sentence of life imprisonment. In compliance with the plea agreement, the government filed a superseding information, on December 30, 2004, reducing the drug quantity. The Court set a change of plea hearing for January 4, 2005. However, Walker refused to admit that he was guilty of conspiracy to distribute LSD

http://ok.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20080805_0000250.NOK.htm/qx

  1. dealing drugs with 3 prior trafficking convictions is dumb.

  2. Not accepting the plea deal was dumb.

  3. What makes this guy any different than this guy

  4. Being a "dead head" is dumb... I'd give him life just for that.

Jerry Was A Piece Of Shit

JWAPOS

This guy is serving life for being an idiot, not for selling LSD.


[-4 Points] wiggitywiggity123:

the penalties for what he did are clearly published and made available to him whenever he wished to look at them. he chose to violate the law anyways and he got the penalty as prescribed by the law. he deserves what he got. whether the law is just/fair or not is a completely different question (it isn't). the fact is that he broke the law as it stands and knew full well what he was doing. he shouldn't have done the crime if he couldn't do the time. nobody was forcing him to produce LSD.